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 […]”

CEFR level