wivehood

English

Noun

wivehood (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

wivehood in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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