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housewively

housewively is the alternative form of housewifely.

Meaning of housewifely

Adjective

housewifely (comparative more housewifely, superlative most housewifely)

  1. Befitting a housewife.
    • […] to make the yong women sobre minded, to loue their husbands to loue their children, to be discrete, chaste, housewifely, good and obediente vnto theyr owne husbands […]c. 1550, Thomas Becon, “A generalle prayer that all Men may walke in their vo[c]acion and callynge”, in The Flour of Godly Praiers, London: John Day

Forms of housewively

comparativemore housewively
superlativemost housewively

Questions about housewively

What is housewively the alternative form of?
Housewively is the alternative form of housewifely.

Words near housewively in the dictionary

  1. housewifry
  2. housewindow
  3. housewindows
  4. housewive
  5. housewived
  6. housewively
  7. housewivery
  8. housewives
  9. housewiving
  10. housewivish
  11. housewoman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housewively (page history and authors); housewifely (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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