wivehood

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English

Noun

wivehood (uncountable)

Obsolete form of wifehood.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  That girdle gave the vertue of chast love
  And wivehood true to all that did it beare

References

“wivehood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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