What does wivesless mean?
Wivesless means (rare) Without wives..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Without wives..
They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to stay home and merely watch TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.
And the professors read the law from heavy tomes to the Roman abductors of their wives (the rights of the people), and then marching two steps forward, one step backward, they return, wivesless!
Many persons meet untimely deaths, children become homeless; husbands become wivesless and vice versa.
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Wivesless means (rare) Without wives..
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They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to stay home and merely watch TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.
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