Unwive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unwive is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
Meaning
(transitive, archaic) To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
More Meanings
- (transitive, archaic) To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.
Example Sentences
State law was not needed to unwive her. She had never been a wife. She had experienced nothing, given nothing. She had mocked passion with barter, and starved love with selfishness.
[…] that bedroom long-closed and musty, that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress, the bowed and unwived widow kneeling beside it […]
Word Forms
- unwives
- unwiving
- unwived
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dismarry, divest, unwedge, unmarry, unreave, undivorce.
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