wivehood

English

Noun

wivehood (uncountable)

1. 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.