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語源

From Middle English wifhode, wifhod, wifhede, from 古期英語 wīfhād (“femininity; the female sex”), equivalent to wife +‎ -hood.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌɪfhʊd/

名詞

wifehood (usually uncountable, 複数形 wifehoods)

1. The quality or state of being a wife.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 199:

     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.