unwifeliness

unwifeliness

English

Noun

unwifeliness (uncountable)

1. The condition of being unwifely.
   • 1867, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], The Danvers Papers: An Invention, London: Macmillan and Co., pages 130–131:

     Say to him, that I thank him heartily, and that nothing has so contributed to my present Happiness as his constant, grave, though indirect Testimony against my past Unwifeliness, never seeming to see that Aught was amiss, and ever taking it, as it were, for granted, that I was what I ought to be, thus rendering me ashamed of myself.

   • 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love, page 338:

     Her unwifeliness was astounding; it was so astounding that Louis did not all at once quite realize how dangerously he was wounded by it.

   • 1987, Modern Chinese Literature, page 151:

     I would suspect, however, that a Confucian leadership would find her unfiliality even more shocking than this unwifeliness.