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Meanings of wifely duty in English
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Usage of wifely duty in English
1
She'll go simply as a matter of wifely duty, and all that.
2
And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!
3
I completely fail in my wifely duty to advise him, I see nothing.
4
He had a great deal to say on the subject of wifely duty.
5
Clarice's ideas of wifely duty were of a very primitive kind.
6
Not made with interest or feeling; but promptly, as the dictate of wifely duty.
7
We watched Mrs. Oo-vai-oo-ak the Younger at this wifely duty.
8
Whereupon Kitty gently reproved him, as was her wifely duty.
9
To the cloister-reared maiden the idea of wifely duty was elevated almost to a religion.
10
Docile as ever, and eager to gratify my lightest wish, she left no wifely duty unfulfilled.
11
She had her wifely duty to perform.
12
To choose between love and wifely duty?
13
And yet you said a little while ago that I had not failed in any wifely duty!
14
She couldn't, evidently, understand why Rose mightn't have done her wifely duty and been content with that.
15
Bessie thought that a good wife must be chaste, of course; other matters of wifely duty were less distinct.
16
I was much touched by her devotion and wifely duty, and assured her of it by every means in my power.
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Wifely duty across language varieties
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