Wives

Definitions

genitive of wife

form-of, genitive, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] beautie in his wiues face⟳, will féede his heart with a thouſand delights: […]”

“[…] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake⟳ ſo unluckily, […]”

“He found a freſh Subject for his Admiration, when he ſaw the Prickles on that which bore his Wives Name⟳, and the two others without any.”

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