Definition of Wifehood. Meaning of Wifehood. Synonyms of Wifehood

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Definition of Wifehood

Wifehood
Wifehood Wife"hood, n. [AS. wifh[=a]d.] 1. Womanhood. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.

Meaning of Wifehood from wikipedia

- A wife (pl.: wives) is a woman in a marital relationship. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until their marriage is legally...
- Whitney (2009), Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-973679-9 Keown, Damien; Prebish...
- so much (Thakur's wealth, his social standing and the respectability of wifehood), whereas he, Gajendra, has, in fact, lost his only source of income, which...
- Whitney (2009). Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 978-0-19-973679-9. Retrieved...
- scholar Mizuyo Sudo mentioned that around 1915, Liang Sishun believed in wifehood and motherhood as proper social roles for women in Chinese society. In...
- Kelting (2009). Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood. Oxford University Press. pp. 45–47, 190 with notes 20, 21. ISBN 978-0-19-973679-9...
- she centered her social-uplift theory around improving motherhood and wifehood. The Tuskegee Woman's Club later merged local organizations with women...
- among women and is referred to as the "women's deity" and "a symbol of wifehood and motherhood", it is also called "the central sectarian symbol of Hinduism"...
- Addams's construction of womanhood involved daughterhood, ****uality, wifehood, and motherhood. In both of her autobiographical volumes, Twenty Years...
- woman the morning after her marriage, and was regarded as the badge of wifehood. This article incorporates text from Dwelly's [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary...