Wifed
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of wife form-of, participle, past
- 1 Having a wife or the specified number of wives. in-compounds, not-comparable, often, rare
"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 the twentieth?"
Synonyms
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More examples"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 the twentieth?"
Etymology
From wife (noun) + -ed (“having”).
From wife (verb) + -ed (past-tense suffix).
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