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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References
- wiveless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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