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English
Verb
weive (third-person singular simple present weives, present participle weiving, simple past and past participle weived)
- Obsolete form of waive.
References
Middle English
Verb
weive
- Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy , published 1857, →OCLC:Her leges wolde hem nought receive,
So that they mote algates weive
To ſeche londe in other place.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)