Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Wifehood
wifehood, n. [see wife, n.] (webplay: wife).
Being a bride; life as a married woman; [metonymy] matrimony; wedlock; union; legal marriage; consummated love; [fig.] redemption; paradisiacal glory; heavenly bliss; fulfillment of promises; union of body, spirit, heart, and mind through the resurrection.
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