Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being henpecked.
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Examples
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A few things had been added: a hennery, -- called by Dotty "a henpeckery" -- and a graceful white boat, named the Water-Kelpie.
Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple Sophie May 1869
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed henpeckery.
Oliver Twist 1838
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