Translations for „spinsterhood“ in the English » German Dictionary

spin·ster·hood [ˈspɪn(t)stəhʊd, Am -stɚ-] N no pl

spinsterhood

Ehelosigkeit f

spinsterhood

Jungfernstand m old

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English

About 90 percent of the women had been married by the age of forty, and spinsterhood was rare.

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I have two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood and eventual eating by alsatians, or not.

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The impetus behind this surge was middle-class women aware that they needed to marry by 25 or risk lifelong spinsterhood.

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Condemned to a life of eternal spinsterhood?

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Nevertheless, after overhearing an insulting remark at a party about her spinsterhood, she resolves to marry.

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She was a passionate woman, but was resigned to spinsterhood.

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I live in glorious, voluntary spinsterhood.

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Young women decided they were not willing to waste away their young lives waiting idly for spinsterhood; they were going to enjoy life.

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At 42, she's bitterly aware of having achieved spinsterhood and beginning a concomitant descent into invisibility.

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These little matters of personal attractiveness mean the difference between riches and poverty, marriage or spinsterhood, and wedded bliss or broken homes.

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