spinsterhood in English

noun

['spin·ster·hood || 'spaɪnstə(r)hʊd]

state of being an unmarried woman, state of being an old maid; unmarried women collectively

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1. She had stiffened into a pronounced spinsterhood.

2. The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now.

3. To avoid spinsterhood, she would need the help of her family.

4. The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.

5. Sympathetic murmurs greet this delicate reference to her own spinsterhood, and the hunters then move in for the kill.

6. Purists argued that celibacy and spinsterhood were positive acts of self-determination, in contrast to the illusory freedom of libertarianism.

7. In Pride and Prejudice, for a woman, generally the only way to her is to get married besides being spinsterhood or governess.

8. 3 ‘continence is the wilful Abstention from sexual relations’ SYNONYMS celibacy , chastity, singleness, continence, virginity, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial, bachelorhood, spinsterhood