Every storm is laid, And forth from plain each pleasant herb may peep, Each bloom of wifehood in abeyance late: (Confer a passage in the Canticles.
Yet certainly I do feel relieved that wifehood is to be my poor Flapsy's portion, for she is not of the sort that can stand alone and make her own way.
The physical womanliness of woman essentially consists in wifehood and maternity.
She should store it up for wifehood and motherhood.
And Florence was above everything else a church member, a prominent Christian in her self-sacrificing wifehood and motherhood, her social and charitable and civic work.
Stirred to the deeps of her being by wifehood and motherhood, by her passionate love for her husband and children, it was a humiliating thought that she must coquette with and flatter other men.
But wifehoodis a conception of the creative human intellect, a specialized object of human feelings.
Her childhood is an adoration, marriage a sacrament, wifehood an oblation: in motherhood she finds at once sacrifice and worship: while life and death alike are a quest and a resignation.
They are wives, andwifehood not motherhood, as in the previous case, is the phase of the domestic relation which is the theme of song and struggle in their lives.
Possible its present importance is the reason why wifehood was dismissed with so brief mention in the portion concerning the famous mothers.
To what end prate of the duties of wifehood when you do not ask them to be wives?
At anyrate, once they have reached that stage of wanting the real things of life they would sooner have wifehood and comparative poverty than ease and empty hearts in their parents' home.
It is perhaps not too severe to say that a woman who has absolutely no vocation for wifehood and motherhood must be a degenerate, and so lacking in the best feminine instincts as to deserve the reproach of being 'sexless.
Some girls are fit for wifehood and maternity in their teens; others never.
I should have thought the most essential part of such a one's outfit was her potentialities for wifehood and motherhood.
They became not forces to be used by her inwifehood and motherhood but commercial assets, valued in dollars, worth a certain price upon the woman labor market in the business world.
There was grave danger that interest and enthusiasm in other things would supplant her longing for wifehood and motherhood.
They were the things of her wifehood and motherhood.
In earlier days every man might marry as many wives as he could take care of, and the length of the wifehood was solely in the husband's hand.
As has been intimated, the modern woman who has entered into the economic competition is often reluctant to abandon this activity for the responsibilities of wifehood and motherhood, which involve a withdrawal from the business world.
The numerical superiority of the female population and the increasing bachelorhood of men of the upper classes, compel a large percentage of educated girls to renounce their natural profession of wifehood and motherhood.
They do not recognize that millions of women are not placed in a position enabling them to fulfill their natural function of wifehood and motherhood, owing to reasons that we shall discuss at length later on.
Lucilla gave a little sigh of relief; she scarcely could have told herself how far it was sincere, how far acting—her wifehood was so permeated by acting now.
But I think I shall carry most women with me in saying that for the ordinary woman marriage is the happiest state, and that she rarely realizes the deepest and highest in her nature except in wifehood and motherhood.
He knew very well that the slightest word or glance of self-betrayal would bring on the immediate severance of her relationship with him: her wifehood might be her martyrdom, but it was martyrdom inviolate.
He wanted to gloat over her beauty, her wifehood and her motherhood, and to exult in sole possession.
Mrs. Hulver having entered the bonds of matrimony three times considered that she was entitled to speak with authority on the condition of wifehood and widowhood.
She had married, knowing nothing of wifehood and motherhood, except the one fact that the matter of children must be left entirely to chance.
Love and wifehood and motherhood she had known, now she would know the joy of perfected expression, the fulfillment of the height.
Many of these bachelor women are magnificent in mind and body, but they lack wifehood and yet more--motherhood.
There were many who were pretty with the charm of youth, some who were lovely with the finer dowry of beauty, that wifehood and motherhood only enhances.
They often made love to each other, she with a freedom that wifehood had given her which was enchanting.
He was not in so great a hurry to share Renee, but he felt there was no life, no joy to a woman comparable with wifehood and motherhood.
The eldest early assumed the burdens of wifehood and maternity.
Will not this declaration convince you that you have decided rashly, not to say cruelly, in making your wifehood dependent upon mine?
Yet, in the name of practical education, we are sometimes asked to tolerate a correspondingly complete preparation for wifehood and motherhood at an age when both of those estates are mere prospects, distant and indefinite.
Such motherhood and wifehood as were hers were as fair statues raised to Nature's self.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wifehood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alliance; bed; cohabitation; intermarriage; match; matrimony; miscegenation; union; wedlock
