What is "wifehood"

Usage examples of "wifehood".

I hope the day will come when she, so worthy of it, will taste the sweet joys of wifehood and motherhood.

Betsy and Ginger had accompanied Louis on the stump, Ginger sat on the edge of Grange Hall st agings swinging her attractive legs and shredding the red, white, and blue bunting with her three-inch heels, all the while complaining of the rigors of political wifehood and wondering whether she was going to end up with her own ritzy rehab clinic someday, just like Betty Ford.

She said that since she was the mother of his three children aged five through ten, she figured her wifehood took precedence over mine, and suggested I find some other marriage to try to break up, because hers was as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, thank you very much, and hung up.

And in thy wifehood, I adjure thee now As mother, by the love thou bearest our child, In this thy hour of passion and of love, Of sacrifice and sorrow, to unsay Thy words sublime!

She had been bridesmaid at weddings where the charming brides, notwithstanding their superficial loveliness, possessed few of the qualifications for wifehood with which she was so richly endowed.

In wifehood I will use mine instrument As freely as my Maker hath it sent.

The perfect wifehood of Artemisie Honoured is throughout all Barbarie.

The crown of wifehood and maternity is purer, more divine, than that of the maiden.

And in thy wifehood, I adjure thee now As mother, by the love thou bearest our child, In this thy hour of passion and of love, Of sacrifice and sorrow, to unsay Thy words sublime!

In a few seasons he straitened the coltishness with admonitions, faded the pink and gold with preaching, and produced a sad, grey wraith of wifehood who died, unprotesting, a year after her second son was born.