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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. 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.