wivehood
English
editNoun
editwivehood (uncountable)
- 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
edit- “wivehood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.