Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood.
- noun A trait or habit peculiar to a bachelor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
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- noun
bachelorhood - noun A manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Feministi: Sadly one of the fundamental beliefs of bachelorism is that women are to blame for divorce.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Occasionally, you will revert to sudden bouts of bachelorism, a night in the rain with a barbaric yawp that ends with a pounding headache and a full glass of cold water.
found while packing 2004
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Occasionally, you will revert to sudden bouts of bachelorism, a night in the rain with a barbaric yawp that ends with a pounding headache and a full glass of cold water.
passage rite 2004
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The ancient church, misconstruing the Apostle's words, and also overlooking his meaning, recommended the state of bachelorism in the male, and perpetual virginity in the female sex, not only as a state more perfect than marriage, but even as highly meritorious.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various
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By many, the Christian dispensation is supposed to be, in a great degree, favourable to a state of bachelorism, because the Apostle, Paul, has recommended it as preferable; but we think the recommendation was given for the following reason: (i.e.) every one in the early ages of
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various
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But I must stop or I shall tire you out, although I have not taken up all the points in your last letter -- yet I must make one assertion before closing, that bachelorism is your sin & not your misfortune, for you lords of the Creation are prime movers in the affair, while we poor maidens dare only wait & wait to be asked.
Franklin County: E. to Edward McPherson, October 1, 1859 E. 1859
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Ten to one, he is old, and has all the shrivelled, high-dried appearance of the most far-gone and confirmed bachelorism.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841
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“The next piece was a satire on certain members who were getting very much into the way of joking on the worn-out subjects of matrimony and old maid and old bachelorism.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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"The next piece was a satire on certain members who were getting very much into the way of joking on the worn-out subjects of matrimony and old maid and old bachelorism.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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