spousess

spousess

English

Etymology

From spouse +‎ -ess

Noun

spousess (plural spousesses)

1. (obsolete) A wife or bride.
   • 2007, Anne Crawford, quoting Robert Fabyan, The Yorkists: The history of a dynasty.‎ (History), quoted in The New Chronicles of England and France (1515), →ISBN, page 68:

     One account has it that at the ceremony there 'were no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlemen and a young man to help the priest sing.'

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spousess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)