Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unwive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-wive
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.

Archaic; Transitive verb

verb

To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.

Archaic; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"State law was not needed to unwive her. She had never been a wife. She had experienced nothing, given nothing. She had mocked passion with barter, and starved love with selfishness."
"[…] that bedroom long-closed and musty, that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress, the bowed and unwived widow kneeling beside it […]"

Etymology

From un- + wive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Inflected Forms

unwives (present, singular) unwiving (participle, present) unwived (participle, past) unwived (past)

Questions

What does unwive mean?: To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
Where does unwive come from?: From un- + wive.

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