How To Use Maidenhood In A Sentence
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Most brides wear white to symbolize maidenhood.
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Educated at home, she has probably travelled some in her maidenhood, living in the confines of family and friends, and yet she has managed to develop her own kind of independence.
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My great-great aunt Constance was, I believe, some kind of erotomaniac, while her two sisters, Trissie and Elsie, carried their maidenhoods with them to their graves -- and I am only counting among the deceased.
Loathed, Lovable and Loopy
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While most brides today marry in white (which symbolizes maidenhood), the tradition is only as old as the 16th century.
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Christine also rewrote the stories themselves, challenging the interpretations of contemporary male authors, who held up Lucretia's suicide, for example, as a virtuous defense of honor and maidenhood.
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His wife, who in her maidenhood was Ms. Grace, was a native of Ireland, and in her girlhood days came to the United States with her parents.
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Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood.
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In the Ovidian version Protea is enabled to change shape by Neptune to whom she appeals as "You who robbed me of my maidenhood, and have your reward."
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He wanted me to be kept so I could be married to a prince or king with my maidenhood intact.
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So, you know, I think it's a disservice to talk about the voyeuristic qualities or this business about her maidenhood and that kind of stuff.
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It was not only her maidenhood that she parted with it was also any remaining hope at the reconciliation with her family.
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As Darcy entered the room, he could well understand why Wickham had posed no threat to Miss Bennet's maidenhood.
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In one novel the deserted maiden loses a lock of hair, in the other her maidenhood.
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The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
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As a married woman, Mrs. Darcy retained the brightness and the unshakable ability to be at ease in every situation of her maidenhood.
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Without free trade — in its sweeter and more innocent maidenhood of smuggling — there never could have been on board that English ship the Victory, a man, unless he were a runagate, with a mind of such laxity as to understand French.
Mary Anerley
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Transition from maidenhood to what is called the matronly had been too rapid; it was emphasised by her costume, which cried aloud in its excess of modish splendour.
The Crown of Life
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Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?
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As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
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The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
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Altars are reared around, and the priestess, with hair undone, thrice peals from her lips the hundred gods of Erebus and Chaos, and the triform Hecate, the triple-faced maidenhood of Diana.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood.
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I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood.
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Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel.
By Shore and Sedge
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They used the very same myth of the lustful African just waiting to deflower Southern maidenhood …
Think Progress » Shep Smith hits Robertson’s ‘devil’ comments: The people of Haiti ‘don’t need that’ at a time like this.
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This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.