maidhood
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自中古英语 maidhod、maidhede、meithhad，源自古英语 mæġþhād。等同于maid + -hood。对比maidenhood。
名词[编辑]
maidhood (不可数)
- 处女，童贞（状态）
- 1888, Samuel Rockwell Reed, Offthoughts about Women and Other Things - Page 270:
- Must the coming woman marry to take away the reproach of maidhood? ... But if the coming woman is to have the same fear of keeping her maidhood, she will be as subject to man as now, and equality laws will fail to make her equal.
- 将来的女性一定要结婚以摆脱处女的耻辱吗？...但如果将来的女性和现在一样，对保持童贞感到恐惧，那么她们也会和现在一样服从于男性，平等法也无法使她们真正地平等。
- Must the coming woman marry to take away the reproach of maidhood? ... But if the coming woman is to have the same fear of keeping her maidhood, she will be as subject to man as now, and equality laws will fail to make her equal.
- 1888, Samuel Rockwell Reed, Offthoughts about Women and Other Things - Page 270: