daughterhoodn.
/ˈdɔːtəhʊd/, U.S. /ˈdɔdərˌhʊd/, /ˈdɑdərˌhʊd/ 1. † a. A fine payable by a tenant to a feudal lord upon the marriage of the tenant's daughter; = merchet n. Obsolete. rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of giving daughter in marriage
merchet1493
daughterhood1771
1771 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. I. viii. 265 Apparently nothing more than the Merch-ed of Howel Dha, the daughter-hood, or the fine for the marriage of a daughter.
b. The state, condition, or fact of being a daughter.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > daughter > [noun] > condition of daughter
daughterhead?a1425
daughtership1675
daughterhood1847
1847 Pract. Educator 1 Sept. 260 Shall they then, in the days of their daughterhood, be trained to these duties?
1890 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 250 Daughter, thou hast lost thy divine daughterhood.
1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom iii. iv. 228 A man marries to settle down, a woman..to get away from the constraints of daughterhood and of Miss-hood.
1971 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 8/4 A young wife who has yielded completely to lovemaking of championship frequency..can just as easily revert to dutiful daughterhood when her husband deserts her.
2003 T. Dawson in H. Bloom George Eliot's Silas Marner 105 The novel's principal theme is the riddle of daughterhood.
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1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 101 The motherhood of Great Britain..and the unportioned daughterhood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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