wivish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of wifish.
Example Sentences
- "[…] by her wiviſh and womaniſh ſolicitations ſo hampered Valentinian in his proceedings, […]"
- "Celia felt warm and wivish and randy."
- "This uniquely Protestant assault on wivish mourning conflates excessive feminine grief which unduly laments the body’s demise with Catholic mourning, consistently stressing the continuity between women’s mourning as an imperfect version of men’s stoic sorrow and Catholic liturgical excesses as imperfect (per)versions of reformed ceremonies."
Inflected Forms
more wivish (comparative)
most wivish (superlative)