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Meaning of Wives | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
waɪvz

Definitions

genitive of wife

form-of, genitive, obsolete

Equivalents

العربية الزوجات
Tiếng Việt phi

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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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