Housewivery

Quick meaning: Housewivery is a noun meaning (now rare) Alternative form of housewifery.

Meaning

(now rare) Alternative form of housewifery.

Example Sentences

Hawn’s feisty side — whether she’s rebelling against cheap caviar or overwhelming housewivery — gives “Overboard” its energy and direction.

8. Bare walls make giddy houſe-wives. 8. i. e, Idle houſe-wives, they having nothing whereabout to buſie themſelves and ſhew their good houſewivery. […] One utterly ignorant of countrey affairs, of husbandry and houſewivery as there practiſed.

The women teach their daughters from their youths vpwards, to bake bread, and to grind Millia, with other Houſewiuery; whereby it commeth to paſſe, that they haue good skill in houſe-keeping, becauſe they are brought vp therein from their youths.

Pro-Family believes that the measure is at odds with the role of women as family makers and is, therefore, in harmony with a “radical feminism” that wishes “to change that.” Pro-Family indicts radical feminists, whatever that means, as the villains of the piece and quote a feminist author as describing housewivery as “an illegitimate profession.”

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