maidenship
English
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editmaidenship (usually uncountable, plural maidenships)
- (obsolete) The state of being a maiden; virginity.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- though at this day of KENT alone is left unto her , as whose maidenship is vehemently suspected , and holiness utterly denied
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edit- “maidenship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.