bewifed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of bewife
Example Sentences
- "He fiercely denies that he is George Fitzamble, but there is a trial and the court finds him a married man and charges him with the support of a wife. […] Well, Simoni refuses to have anything to do with Mrs. George Fitzamble, and the newspapers lampoon, and denounce him as an arrant swindler, and an enemy of society. But by this time Edna had managed to interest and even fascinate the bewifed and bewildered bachelor, and he, like a fool, lingers about and and watches her, then falls in love with the syren, only to find that she dislikes him and will have none of his protestations."
- "It is all right of course for the pure in heart to ship in carloads of protests against the seating in congress of the polygamous member from the home of the Saints, but if it is left to those members of the lower house who are without sin to cast the unseating ballots, the unduly bewifed Mr. [Brigham Henry] Roberts will remain seated by the largest majority on record."
- "To get back to our newest naval officer, Ensign Fiedler, who complains bitterly that he has yet to venture beyond the confines of Sheepshead Bay, we hasten to add—in case we’ve never mentioned it before—that he is engaged to Miss Agnes Grant of Warren, Ohio. That leaves only Happy Florea of the ill-fated Birdbrains neither bewifed nor betrothed. Which is fair enough, adds Happy."