discovert
English
editEtymology
editOld French descovert, past participle of descovrir (“to uncover”).
Noun
editdiscovert (plural discoverts)
Derived terms
editAdjective
editdiscovert (not comparable)
- (law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “discovert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)