unˈwive, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To deprive (a person) of a wife. Also refl.
| 1611 Florio, Dismogliare, to unwiue. 1633 Ford Broken H. ii. ii, Had this sincerity beene reall once, My Orgilus had not beene now vn-wiu'd. 1759 S. Fielding C'tess of Dellwyn II. 147 He was at once unwived, unhoused, and undone. 1824 Medwin Convers. Byron I. 95, I began by being jilted, and ended by being unwived. 1851 W. B. MacCabe Bertha III. 376, I can do more strange things than unwive myself and wive you. |