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- noun dated The state or condition of being a
mummy ;mummification .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quitting her job to devote herself full-time to her family, Carole dove headlong into mummyhood.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Quitting her job to devote herself full-time to her family, Carole dove headlong into mummyhood.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Jupiter-Amon, used to lie on both banks of the Nile; the east for the living, the west for the dead and those who lived by catering for mummyhood.
It Happened in Egypt 1889
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Lady Cecilia lets me call on her at twelve, and take her with me: and yet I grew tired of it, and shall not have patience to continue, but shall remain, I believe, in my mummyhood.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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