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  • noun The condition of being wifely

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Examples

  • Here was an unfussy assertion that her identity was multifaceted, and that in that formulation at least, her wifeliness came third to children and career.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Here was an unfussy assertion that her identity was multifaceted, and that in that formulation at least, her wifeliness came third to children and career.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Here was an unfussy assertion that her identity was multifaceted, and that in that formulation at least, her wifeliness came third to children and career.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Here was an unfussy assertion that her identity was multifaceted, and that in that formulation at least, her wifeliness came third to children and career.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • A woman not only young enough to be his daughter, but whose wifeliness has yet to run up against those domestic responsibilities that furrow the brow and blight the marital romance.

    Lost in Renovation: Braving a Tour Of Domestic Duty 2004

  • I had my doubts about Ruthie -- she seemed a little too assertive of how she adored you, too _public_ about it for it to be real -- forgive me, I didn't say anything because you loved her -- but this one makes Ruthie look like the queen of wifeliness.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • I had my doubts about Ruthie -- she seemed a little too assertive of how she adored you, too _public_ about it for it to be real -- forgive me, I didn't say anything because you loved her -- but this one makes Ruthie look like the queen of wifeliness.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • But some little quality of blind admiration and faith was gone from her wifeliness thereafter.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • While Genevieve Remington in her snug library, so eager in her wifeliness to clamber up to her husband's small planks, and if need be, spread her prettily flounced skirts over the rotting places, was memorizing, with more pride than understanding, extracts from the controversial article for quotation at the Woman's Club meeting, Mr. Penfield Evans, with

    The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920

  • "I am glad to see there is so much fitness and wifeliness about you, since you will naturally spend all your life on farms."

    Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

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