ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. MDu. onghewijft wifeless, MHG. ungewîbet maiden; and UNWIFED a.] Not having a wife or wives; wifeless.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 51. Vnwyued, inuxoratus, cœlebs.

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1611.  Florio, Smogliato, without a wife, unwiued.

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1612.  Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., viii. 357. A competent number of Virgins might be sent ouer to furnish his vnwiu’d Batchelers.

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[1775.  Ash.]

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1827.  Hood, Widow, 63. He look’d so lone, and so unwiv’d, That soon the Widow Cross contriv’d To fall in love.

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1866.  Lytton, Lost Tales Miletus, 32. Of his stalwart chiefs [he selected] … all the bravest yet unwived.

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1873.  E. H. Clarke, Sex in Educ., 63. The old story of unwived Rome and the Sabines.

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