Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of having a
mate (someone to reproduce with).
Etymologies
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Examples
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She thought she would keel over in shock if someone got to know her, and then, based on her personal merits alone—not matehood, or whatever—said, No doubt of it.
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Though matehood was as good as forever for his kind, the Valkyrie preferred some kind of binding ceremony—Annika had backed down from her hostility a grudging inch once Lachlain had agreed to give Emma one.
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“Yeah, since matehood means you own fifty percent of all his swag, then bring me home any vinyl LPs you may come across, some weapons, and of course, anything shiny.”
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So Edwards has to stay in the background and hope that the two will destroy each other and relegate themselves to running-matehood, like Geraldine Ferraro.
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The mixture was of pride and jealousy, approval and solicitude, motherhood and matehood -- quite a curious little study in expression.
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Off there, beyond the pale of the cabin and the influence of Nepeese, were all the things that the wolf blood in him found now most desirable: companionship of his kind, the lure of adventure, the red, sweet blood of the chase -- and matehood.
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It struck upon him like a clashing discord, the fact of matehood between these two -- a condition inconsistent and out of tune with the beautiful things he had built up in his mind about the woman.
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Nature could tell him nothing of Kazan's merciless vengeance, of the wonderful years of their matehood, of their loyalty, their strange adventures in the great
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To see a bird singing on a twig means but little; but to live a season with that bird, to be with it in courting days, in matehood and motherhood, to understand its griefs as well as its gladness means a great deal.
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The vision of home, the complete matehood, had gone the way of all dreams.
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