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spinsterhood

noun

Etymology

From spinster + -hood.

  1. inherited from spynnestere — “woman who spins fibre”
  2. suffixed as spinsterhood — “spinster + hood”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being a spinster.

    • sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood

  2. The time during which one is a spinster.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA