wifed

Adjective

wifed (not comparable)

1. (in-compounds, often, rare) Having a wife or the specified number of wives.
   • If a man of many wives starts with as much love for his first wife as ordinary one-wifed men have for theirs, and goes on increasing his love with each additional wife, so that he can always say to the last that “he never really loved before;” how much love will he have when he gets to the tenth or...1874, Mrs. T[homas] B[rown] H[olmes] Stenhouse [i.e., Fanny Stenhouse], “‘Our’ Husband’s Fiancée—A Second Wife’s Sorrows—Steps towards Apostacy”, in “Tell It All”: The Story of a Life’s Experience in...
   • It was whispered about on Tuesday morning that we were to have a Mormon woman as a speaker, and so it proved—Mrs. Emily S[ophia] Richards, delegate from the Women’s Association of that territory. “Her bonnet would strike terror to a many-wifed man,” was the whispered comment of some one in the...1888 April 5, Kate Foote, “Our Washington Letter”, in The Independent, volume XL, number 2053, New York, N.Y.: The Independent Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6 (422), column 4

   Synonyms:

   bewifed