wifedom

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The condition of marriage for a woman.

   “"In your view of wifedom,” I began, “is the wife to acknowledge having a personality and will of her own, or do you see her as simply being responsive to her. . .her husband?”

2. isim A woman's devotion to meeting the needs and/or desires of another, as if they were a marriage partner.

   “We suspect that Mr. Dixon has exaggerated both the extent and intensity of the defiance of common sense as well as common decency which spiritual wifedom implies.”