wive
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to take as wife; marry.
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to provide with a wife.
verb
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to marry (a woman)
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(tr) to supply with a wife
Etymology
Origin of wive
before 900; Middle English wiven, Old English wīfian, derivative of wīf; see wife
Example Sentences
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The men of Padua, where Fred Graham’s Petruchio has “come to wive it wealthily,” sport brightly hued tights, exaggerated codpieces and lavishly plumed caps.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2015
But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2013
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons Do, but awake a hope to live That had gone With the dragons?
From Responsibilities and other poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Shakspeare has imparted a dashing humorous character to this play, exemplified, among other peculiarities, by such rhyming of following words as— "Haply to wive and thrive as least I may."
From Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
“They that wive Between sickle and scythe, Shall never thrive.”
From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by Madders, S. S.
Ono wived by letting husbands go; she mothered her daughter by letting her go.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2012
Scoffers at U. S. learning might with a modicum of justice point out that Dr. Carrel is French-born, educated and wived, that Dr. Landsteiner is Austrian-born, educated and wived.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his mother the Evening Post learned their names, and that Soso has twice wived.
From Time Magazine Archive
And let it have survived Their conflict, comes the peace between the pair, Unknown to thousands husbanded and wived: Unknown to Passion, generous for prey: Unknown to Love, too blissful in a truce.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
Look you now if men grow not insolent Because of me, a man so throned, so wived.
From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles
Unable to get along on his $150,000 yearly income from a trust fund, Dodge managed to borrow at least $10 million from his mother, Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge, 99, to bankroll his wining and wiving.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fighting, writing, digging, rigging, Hiving, wiving, nursing, versing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In wiving and thriving men should take counsel of all the world.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas
Thou'st cause, when the slave will run a wiving, Dol, Against the instrument that was drawn between us.
From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben
The ancient saying is no heresy;— Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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