wifed
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of wifed
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(in-compounds, not-comparable, 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 the twentieth?”
“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 audience; […]”
““You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.””
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adj
-
(in-compounds, not-comparable, 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 the twentieth?”
“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 audience; […]”
““You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.””
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wife
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From wife (noun) + -ed (“having”).
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