Meaning of wivesless | Babel Free

Definitions

Without wives.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense⟳ of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know⟳ what to do and didn’t want⟳ to stay⟳ home and merely watch⟳ TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.”

“And the professors read⟳ the law from heavy tomes to the Roman abductors of their wives (the rights of the people), and then marching two steps forward⟳, one step backward, they return⟳, wivesless!”

“Many persons meet⟳ untimely deaths, children become⟳ homeless; husbands become⟳ wivesless and vice versa.”

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