wifehood
/wahyf-hood/US // ˈwaɪf hʊd //
妻子的身份,妻子身份,妻子,妻子的地位
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the state of being a wife.
- : wifely character or quality; wifeliness.
Examples
Those who voted for Hillary wonder how long she'll be content with an office wifehood of the Saudi variety.
Their ideal of wifehood and motherhood is fundamentally wrong.
But herein, as on so many other points, she subdued her natural impulse, and conformed to her husband's idea of wifehood.
Her wifehood, for a month or two ago she would have done likewise, had developed her in a way that marriage had not developed him.
He hesitated; then, insolently: "Your choice between—honest wifehood and honest divorce."
The world has advanced, Mr. Mario, and is filled with sad-eyed mothers and with widows who have scarcely known wifehood.
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