Meaning of unwive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
   archaic, transitive
2. To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.
   archaic, transitive

Examples

“State law was not needed to unwive her. She had never been a wife. She had experienced nothing, given nothing. She had mocked passion with barter, and starved love⟳ with selfishness.”

“[…] that bedroom long-closed and musty, that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love⟳ and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress, the bowed and unwived widow kneeling beside it […]”

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