stepmotherhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From stepmother + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being a stepmother.
Lissy, who never makes it through any of the assigned books, nonetheless wrestles with Angela’s claims about art as life lesson and ends up with a stronger lease on marriage and stepmotherhood as well as miraculous recompense for a never-healed childhood loss.
2007 June 3, Anne Mendelson, “Ladies Who Read”, in New York Times: