stepdaughtern.
/ˈstɛpdɔːtə/ A daughter, by a former marriage, of one's husband or wife.
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daughter-in-law1609
a850 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 88/20 Filiaster, steopdohtor.
912 MS. Vesp. D xiv. lf. 170 Prouigna, stefdohtor.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 103 Theodora þe step-douȝter [1432–50 tr. Higden stappe-doȝhter] of Herculeus Maximianus.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 605 Pri~vigna, a stypdowtur.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 121 In families there are..the step Mother, and the steppe Daughter, the Coosins and Allies.
1681 J. Lauder Hist. Notices (Bannatyne Club) I. 343 Lady Sophia Lindsay, his stepdaughter.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 34 Next morning he introduced me to Mrs. Lucy Porter, his step-daughter.
1913 C. Read in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 48 Leicester was planning to marry his step-daughter to James.
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ˈstepdaughtership n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > condition of stepdaughter
stepdaughtership1876
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xiii She was keenly delicate of her step-daughtership.
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