wivesless
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wivesless (not comparable)
- (rare) Without wives.
- 1956 June 26, Elm, “Summer Bachelors”, in The Ottawa Herald, volume 60, number 171, Ottawa, Kan., page 4, column 1:
- They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to stay home and merely watch TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.
- 1968, New Review, New York, N.Y.: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, page 145:
- And the professors read the law from heavy tomes to the Roman abductors of their wives (the rights of the people), and then marching two steps forward, one step backward, they return, wivesless!
- 1987, Em E Aṃsārī, Tribals in Criminal Web, Jaipur: Publication Scheme, page 148:
- Many persons meet untimely deaths, children become homeless; husbands become wivesless and vice versa.