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Definition of Aunthood
1. the state of being an aunt [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aunthood
Literary usage of Aunthood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"and elder sister, and sunken passively if not willingly into mere aunthood to
her younger sister's children, with no friend who feels her value but that ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"All learned to call her Aunt Sally; and in this universal aunthood, the state
next blessed to motherhood, she became almost happy. ..."
3. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"All learned to call her Aunt Sally; and in this universal aunthood, the state
next blessed to motherhood, she became almost happy. ..."
4. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"... aunthood remain undefended. But Peggy was not without a distinct motive in
urging this arrangement. She took alarm at the alternative, which appeared to ..."
5. Memorials and Letters of Ann Hunt by Ann Hunt, Matilda Sturge (1898)
"The experiences of aunthood are in a sphere of service and suffering by no means
understood or appreciated generally, in my opinion. ..."
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