unwivev.
transitive. To deprive (a person) of a wife. Also reflexive.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of wife
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [verb (reflexive)] > deprive of wife
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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Dismogliare, to unwiue.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart ii. ii. sig. D2v Had this sincerity beene reall once, My Orgilus had not beene now vn-wiu'd.
1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. 147 He was at once unwived, unhoused, and undone.
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron I. 95 I began by being jilted, and ended by being unwived.
1851 W. B. MacCabe Bertha III. 376 I can do more strange things than unwive myself and wive you.
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