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English
Adjective
wiveless (not comparable)
- Dated form of wifeless.
1920, Oreola Williams Haskell, Banner Bearers: Tales of the Suffrage Campaigns, page 124:I’ve canvassed enough to know that it is usually the wiveless men who shout the most about the wife.
1947, Murray Leinster, The Boomerang Circuit; republished as “The Boomerang Circuit”, in Black Cat Weekly, number 58, 2022, page 657:And the widows of murdered men—not sharing that exile—accepted the wiveless men of Ades as their deliverers.
1975 August 29, Gene Siler, “On ‘Mail-Order’ Brides”, in The Corbin Times-Tribune, page 4:Affluent but wiveless miners of the California gold fields advertised in eastern newspapers for wives, and many women booked passage on ships sailing round the Horn to become brides of these men.
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