Word.ws English Dictionary

unwived

unwived is the simple past and past participle of unwive.

Meaning of unwive

Verb

unwive (third-person singular simple present unwives, present participle unwiving, simple past and past participle unwived)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.
    • 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.1913 August, Constance Skinner, “Give Hand and Follow”, in Ainslee’s Magazine, volume 32, number 1, page 74

Adjective

unwived (not comparable)

  1. Not having a wife.

Questions about unwived

What does unwived mean?
Unwived means not having a wife.
What is unwived the simple past and past participle of?
Unwived is the simple past and past participle of unwive.
What part of speech is unwived?
Unwived is an adjective.

Words near unwived in the dictionary

  1. unwitting
  2. unwittingly
  3. unwittingness
  4. unwitty
  5. unwive
  6. unwived
  7. unwives
  8. unwiving
  9. unwizardly
  10. unwizened
  11. unwmk

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unwived (page history and authors); unwive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unwived.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unwived. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.