Meaning of wifed | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a wife or the specified number of wives.

in-compounds, not-comparable, often, rare

Examples

“If a man of many wives starts with as much love⟳ for his first wife as ordinary one-wifed men have⟳ for theirs, and goes on increasing his love⟳ with each additional wife, so that he can always say⟳ to the last⟳ that “he never really loved before;” how much love⟳ will he have⟳ when he gets to the tenth or the twentieth?”

“It was whispered about on Tuesday morning that we were to have⟳ a Mormon woman as a speaker, and so it proved—Mrs. Emily S[ophia] Richards, delegate from the Women’s Association of that territory. “Her bonnet would strike⟳ terror to a many-wifed man,” was the whispered comment⟳ of some one in the audience; […]”

““You smile⟳ and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.””

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