v. [UN-2 3.] trans. To deprive (a person) of a wife. Also refl.
1611. Florio, Dismogliare, to unwiue.
1633. Ford, Broken H., II. ii. Had this sincerity beene reall once, My Orgilus had not beene now vn-wiu’d.
1759. Sarah Fielding, C’tess of Dellwyn, II. 147. So that in one fatal Morning all his Prospects seemed to be in a fair way of being overturned; and he was at once unwived, unhoused, and undone.
1824. Medwin, Convers. Byron, I. 95. I began by being jilted, and ended by being unwived.
1851. W. B. MacCabe, Bertha, III. 376. I can do more strange things than unwive myself and wive you.
