Meanings
- uncountableThe condition of being unwifely.
I would suspect, however, that a Confucian leadership would find her unfiliality even more shocking than this unwifeliness.
1987, Modern Chinese Literature, page 1512 more examples
Say to him, that I thank him heartily, and that nothing has so contributed to my present Happiness as his constant, grave, though indirect Testimony against my past Unwifeliness, never seeming to see that Aught was amiss, and ever taking it, as it were, for granted, that I was what I ought to be, thus rendering me ashamed of myself.
1867, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], The Danvers Papers: An Invention, London: Macmillan and Co., pages 130–131Her unwifeliness was astounding; it was so astounding that Louis did not all at once quite realize how dangerously he was wounded by it.
1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love, page 338
Origin
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