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Definition of maidenhood in English: maidenhoodnoun ˈmeɪdnhʊdˈmeɪdnˌhʊd 1The fact or condition of being a young, unmarried woman. Example sentencesExamples - She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood.
- Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood.
- Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?
- I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood.
- Educated at home, she has probably travelled some in her maidenhood, living in the confines of family and friends, and yet she has managed to develop her own kind of independence.
- As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
- The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
- It was not only her maidenhood that she parted with it was also any remaining hope at the reconciliation with her family.
- This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.
- As a married woman, Mrs. Darcy retained the brightness and the unshakable ability to be at ease in every situation of her maidenhood.
- The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
- His wife, who in her maidenhood was Ms. Grace, was a native of Ireland, and in her girlhood days came to the United States with her parents.
Synonyms chastity, chasteness, virtue, honour, purity, pureness virginity, purity, chastity, virtue, honour, celibacy - 1.1 A girl's virginity.
most brides wear white to symbolize maidenhood Example sentencesExamples - Most brides wear white to symbolize maidenhood.
- While most brides today marry in white (which symbolizes maidenhood), the tradition is only as old as the 16th century.
- In one novel the deserted maiden loses a lock of hair, in the other her maidenhood.
- In the Ovidian version Protea is enabled to change shape by Neptune to whom she appeals as "You who robbed me of my maidenhood, and have your reward."
- He wanted me to be kept so I could be married to a prince or king with my maidenhood intact.
- Christine also rewrote the stories themselves, challenging the interpretations of contemporary male authors, who held up Lucretia's suicide, for example, as a virtuous defense of honor and maidenhood.
- As Darcy entered the room, he could well understand why Wickham had posed no threat to Miss Bennet's maidenhood.
- So, you know, I think it's a disservice to talk about the voyeuristic qualities or this business about her maidenhood and that kind of stuff.
Definition of maidenhood in US English: maidenhoodnounˈmeɪdnˌhʊdˈmādnˌho͝od 1The fact or condition of being a young, unmarried woman. Example sentencesExamples - This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.
- She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood.
- As a married woman, Mrs. Darcy retained the brightness and the unshakable ability to be at ease in every situation of her maidenhood.
- Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood.
- The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
- The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
- As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
- I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood.
- His wife, who in her maidenhood was Ms. Grace, was a native of Ireland, and in her girlhood days came to the United States with her parents.
- Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?
- Educated at home, she has probably travelled some in her maidenhood, living in the confines of family and friends, and yet she has managed to develop her own kind of independence.
- It was not only her maidenhood that she parted with it was also any remaining hope at the reconciliation with her family.
Synonyms chastity, chasteness, virtue, honour, purity, pureness virginity, purity, chastity, virtue, honour, celibacy - 1.1 A girl's virginity.
she had forsworn that her maidenhood would be kept sacred Example sentencesExamples - Most brides wear white to symbolize maidenhood.
- So, you know, I think it's a disservice to talk about the voyeuristic qualities or this business about her maidenhood and that kind of stuff.
- Christine also rewrote the stories themselves, challenging the interpretations of contemporary male authors, who held up Lucretia's suicide, for example, as a virtuous defense of honor and maidenhood.
- As Darcy entered the room, he could well understand why Wickham had posed no threat to Miss Bennet's maidenhood.
- In one novel the deserted maiden loses a lock of hair, in the other her maidenhood.
- He wanted me to be kept so I could be married to a prince or king with my maidenhood intact.
- In the Ovidian version Protea is enabled to change shape by Neptune to whom she appeals as "You who robbed me of my maidenhood, and have your reward."
- While most brides today marry in white (which symbolizes maidenhood), the tradition is only as old as the 16th century.
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