Bewifed
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of bewife form-of, participle, past
- 1 Having a wife. not-comparable, rare
"He fiercely denies that he is George Fitzamble, but there is a trial and the court finds him a married man and charges him with the support of a wife. […] Well, Simoni refuses to have anything to do with Mrs. George Fitzamble, and the newspapers lampoon, and denounce him as an arrant swindler, and an enemy of society. But by this time Edna had managed to interest and even fascinate the bewifed and bewildered bachelor, and he, like a fool, lingers about and and watches her, then falls in love with the syren, only to find that she dislikes him and will have none of his protestations."
Synonyms
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More examples"He fiercely denies that he is George Fitzamble, but there is a trial and the court finds him a married man and charges him with the support of a wife. […] Well, Simoni refuses to have anything to do with Mrs. George Fitzamble, and the newspapers lampoon, and denounce him as an arrant swindler, and an enemy of society. But by this time Edna had managed to interest and even fascinate the bewifed and bewildered bachelor, and he, like a fool, lingers about and and watches her, then falls in love with the syren, only to find that she dislikes him and will have none of his protestations."
Etymology
From be- + wife (noun) + -ed (“having”).
From bewife + -ed (past-tense suffix).
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