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Befit vs Wifehood - What's the difference?

befit | wifehood |

As a verb befit

is to be fit for.

As a noun wifehood is

the quality or state of being a wife.

befit

English

Verb

(befitt)
  • to be fit for

    • Synonyms

    * behoove

    wifehood

    English

    Alternative forms

    *wivehood

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being a wife.
  • The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].

    • Related terms

    *motherhood