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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mistresshood en · NOUN

Etymology

From mistress + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The role or status of a mistress.
    • Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […] 1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse, page 85: