husbandships

Noun

husbandship (countable and uncountable, plural husbandships)

1. The role or status of a husband
   • Hence his eternal inadequacy, and the withering scorn that accompanies it in the works of Ovid and others: In a sense the cuckold is not simply a failed husband, but an emblem of failed husbandship in general, or, worse yet (and this, I think, is what happens at the hands of Renaissance authors)...2002, B. Boehrer, Shakespeare Among the Animals