spinsterhood's Usage Examples:

" Reasons why women would choose spinsterhood over marriage: Preferred a temporary or vague union Little to no economic.

She then, after claiming she would be expected to settle down into spinsterhood in her autobiography, married her husband, Henry, on January 18, 1933.

Danylewycz, Taking the veil: an alternative to marriage, motherhood, spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 (McClelland " Stewart, 1987).

Her real name is Toshiko Ishihara, or Toshiko Ozaki in her spinsterhood.

weight of social expectations on women and the experience of post-war spinsterhood.

married peers, took ideals of love and marriage very seriously, and spinsterhood was indeed often a consequence of their adherence to those ideals.

Women who have cats have long been associated with the concept of spinsterhood.

depicts two single women in their early thirties, examining themes of spinsterhood, sexual experience, unemployment and political corruption.

part of the "gay liberation movement" and embraced the concepts of "spinsterhood" and "the old maid.

chooses to believe a simpler explanation for the evening and rejects spinsterhood in the belief that she will find love again.

Facing spinsterhood on her widowed father"s farm Emma, with the help of her father, is successful.

Those Hurlingford women without a man due to spinsterhood or widowhood lead cramped lives of hard work and little money on scraps.

tactfully on the correct note to save Deanna from a life of school-marmish spinsterhood.

Synonyms:

marital status,