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spousehood Now arch.|ˈspaʊzhʊd, -s-|
Forms: 2 spushad, 3 -hod, 3–4 spoushod (4 -od), 5 -hode, spousehod, -hode (-ode), 5–6 -hoode, 9 spousehood.
[f. spouse n. + -hood.]
The marriage state; matrimony; wedlock.
In Shoreham's poems (1. 1609, 1623, etc.) the ending -hop (once -op) is more frequent than -hod (-od).
c1175Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe sunfulle men þet spushad brekeð. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 45 Ðo þre kinges bitocneð þre hodes of bilefulle men; on is meidhod, þat oðer spushod, þe þridde widewehod. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1507 He þe emperoures doȝter in spoushod nome. c1315Shoreham i. 1996 In spoushod beþ godnesse þre. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xiv. (Tollem. MS.), He likeneþ..þe synagogue to an euil wyf þat brekeþ spoushode. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 167 b, In tyme of peryll of deth fader and moder may crysten theyr owne children without harmynge of theyr spouseholde [sic]. 1891J. Winsor Columbus viii. 166 Such an intimacy as spousehood only can sanction. |