| 单词 | wifedom | 
| 释义 | wifedomn. 1.  The state, condition, or fact of being a wife; the character or qualities of a wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > 			[noun]		 > wife > condition or position of wifehooda1393 wifeheadc1500 wifeship1658 uxorialitya1832 wiving1840 wifedom1845 1845    U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Oct. 267/1  				Wherever she may go..she still finds her wifedom and his supremacy recognized. 1887    Contemp. Rev. Jan. 114  				This essential for good wifedom is also an essential for good womanhood. 1898    Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 7/6  				Unfettered by the cares of wifedom and motherhood. 1976    Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 9 188  				Aristotle's belief in the mental and biological superiority of free men to both women and natural slaves..gave sanction to a hierarchy of servitudes, including wifedom and slavery. 2009    Amer. Hist. Rev. 114 1310  				The forms these unions took range from legitimate monogamous marriage to temporary wifedom and prostitution.  2.  Wives collectively; married women as a class. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > 			[noun]		 > wife > wives collectively wifedom1849 1849    Knickerbocker Sept. 268  				Down upon the heads of all cockney ‘wifedom’ falls the remonstrance of some ‘complainant in the premises’. 1891    J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads VII. 489  				The new race of Wifedom is sadly degenerating. 1941    Ames 		(Iowa)	 Daily Tribune 7 Nov. 5  				American wifedom's most vexing enigma: what goes on at hubby's out-of-town conventions—after the business sessions. 1968    Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 8 544  				The narrator..openly takes her and all suffering wifedom's side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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