Maid″en‐hood (?), n. [AS. mægdenhād. See Maid, and -hood.] 1. The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak.
2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.
The maidenhood
Of thy fight. Shak.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.