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spousess

spousess noun: a wife or bride.

Noun

spousess (plural spousesses)

  1. (obsolete) A wife or bride.
    • One account has it that at the ceremony there 'were no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlemen and a young man to help the priest sing.'2007, Anne Crawford, quoting Robert Fabyan, The Yorkists: The history of a dynasty. (History), quoted in The New Chronicles of England and France (1515), →ISBN, page 68

Forms of spousess

pluralspousesses

Origin of spousess

From spouse + -ess.

Questions about spousess

What does spousess mean?
Spousess means a wife or bride.
What part of speech is spousess?
Spousess is a noun.
What is the plural of spousess?
The plural of spousess is spousesses.

Words near spousess in the dictionary

  1. spousehoods
  2. spouseless
  3. spouselessness
  4. spousely
  5. spouses
  6. spousess
  7. spousesses
  8. spouseware
  9. spousies
  10. spousification
  11. spousing

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