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Wifehood means The quality or state of being a wife..
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/ˈwʌɪfhʊd/ · noun
The quality or state of being a wife..
During the week they spent at Windsor all their necessary furniture was sent in; the more ornamental articles it was decided to leave to the choice of the fair mistress, and, as she had no visits to pay or receive, the occupation it gave Louisa saved her from any mortification she might have felt on sinking at once into the state of happy wifehood.
That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].
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Wifehood means The quality or state of being a wife..
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During the week they spent at Windsor all their necessary furniture was sent in; the more ornamental articles it was decided to leave to the choice of the fair mistress, and, as she had no visits to pay or receive, the occupation it gave Louisa saved her from any mortification she might have felt on sinking at once into the state of happy wifehood.
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