Sentence:  I have seen a procession of monks, with a nightmare of faces, wearied, dejected, purposeless, hopeless, when not brutalized with the traces of furious rebellion against their world, and in that woful panorama of debased human nature I see the figure of what we condemn women to, when we bid them grow old in listless idleness, if they fail to secure to themselves the privileges of <WSD>wifedom</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The condition of marriage for a woman.