wiveless
English
Adjective
wiveless (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of wifeless.
- 1470–1483 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “[Launcelot du Lake]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678) (in Middle English), [England: s.n.], folio 104, verso, lines 25–26:
- […] ye that ar a knyght wyveles · that ye woll nat love ſom mayden oþ̀[er] jantylwoman […]
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 wiveless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- viewless