Meanings
nounwivehood (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of wifehood.
That girdle gave the vertue of chast love And wivehood true to all that did it beare
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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