English

Alternative forms

• wivehood

Noun

wifehood ‎(usually uncountable, plural wifehoods)

1. The quality or state of being a wife.
2. The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].

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• motherhood