unwiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unwive (三人称単数 現在形 unwives, 現在分詞 unwiving, 過去形および過去分詞形 unwived)

1. (transitive, archaic) To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
2. (transitive, archaic) To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.
   • 1913, Constance Skinner, “Give Hand and Follow” in Ainslee’s Magazine, Volume 32, No. 1, August, 1913, p. 74,^[1]

     State law was not needed to unwive her. She had never been a wife. She had experienced nothing, given nothing. She had mocked passion with barter, and starved love with selfishness.

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Vintage, 1990, Chapter 5,

     […] that bedroom long-closed and musty, that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love かつ grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress, the bowed and unwived widow kneeling beside it […]