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SPINSTERHOOD definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
the state or time of being a spinster (= a woman (usually an older woman) who is not married)
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Spinster - Wikipedia
During that century middle-class spinsters, as well as their married peers, took ideals of love and marriage very seriously, and spinsterhood was indeed often a ...
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The Young Lady's Guide to Spinsterhood | by James Horton, Ph.D
The common story about this is that spinsterhood was an assertion of independence from men and marriage, but Berend's conclusion, based on their ...
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spinsterhood
ˈspinsterhood [f. spinster 2 b.] 1. The condition of being an unmarried woman or old maid.1823 Lockhart Reg. Dalton i. vi, It must have required the tact of a very Beau Nash to detect in her appearance the very smallest symptom of spinsterhood. 1863 B. Taylor H. Thurston ii. 28 He married..a tall, s...
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spinsterhood noun - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
the state of a woman not being married. For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood. Take your English to the next level.
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Women's Agency Through Spinsterhood and Celibacy
Furthermore, at times when marriage meant women would lose almost all legal rights they had as unmarried women, spinsterhood could be the practical choice to ...
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spinsterhood
spinsterhood/-hud; -ˌhʊd/ n[U]state of being a spinster 未婚女子身分; 老处女身分.
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SPINSTER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
spinsterhood. ˈspin(t)-stər-ˌhu̇d. noun. spinsterish. ˈspin(t)-st(ə-)rish. adjective. spinsterly adjective. Examples of spinster in a Sentence.
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A brief history of the word "spinster" and how it's still used today
Think Bridget Jones accepting her "permanent state of spinsterhood" and preparing to be eaten by alsatians, while the whole dinner table shames ...
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Spinsterhood: Circumstance or Choice? by A.S. Fenichel
Today, the notion of spinsterhood is rather archaic. We don't think anything of a woman staying single or waiting until her thirties to marry, ...
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spinsterhood - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun. edit. spinsterhood (countable and uncountable, plural spinsterhoods). The condition of being a spinster.
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Clay (short story)
Several instances in the story refer to Maria's life of spinsterhood, devoted to others, with no hope of change.
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Muriel Stuart
Like other female poets of her era, she reflects the weight of social expectations on women and the experience of post-war spinsterhood.
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spinstry
ˈspinstry [f. spinster + -y (cf. -ry).] 1. The art or occupation of spinning; the product of spinning.1611 Cotgr., Filandrerie, spinstrie, spinning. 1652 Charleton Darkn. Atheism x. 353 The spinstry of Silk⁓worms. 1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. ii. iii. 193 The combates of the Gods one agai...
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Mohamed Amin (Egyptian film director)
Two Girls from Egypt (2010) depicts two single women in their early thirties, examining themes of spinsterhood, sexual experience, unemployment and political
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