husband

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At the end of some five or six years she may choose that one to whom her fancy inclines as her husband, and they will live together until the end of their life, unless, after living together a certain period, they fail to have children, when the husband is at liberty to divorce himself and take another wife, on the ground that his own is of no worth.

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  1. noun A man joined to a woman in marriage; a male spouse.
  2. noun Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household.
  3. noun Archaic A prudent, thrifty manager.
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  1. Middle English huseband, from Old English hūsbōnda, from Old Norse hūsbōndi : hūs, house + bōndi, būandi, householder, present participle of būa, to dwell; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English husbonde, housbonde, hosebonde, hosbonde, -bond (rarely ending in -bande, -band, which is etymology incorrect), the master of the house, a married man in relation to his wife, a tiller of the ground, from Anglo-Saxon hūsbonda, hūsbonda, the master of a house (a feminine form hūsbonde, the mistress of a house, appears to occur in one passage, in dative plural hūsbōndum) (= Icelandic hūsbondi, the master of a house, a married man, = Swedish husbonde = Danish husbonde, husbond, master, husband), from hūs, house, + bonda, bunda, orig. with long vowel bōnda, būnda, the master or head of a family, a householder, a married man (later Middle English bonde, a householder, a man of inferior condition, later English bond, bondman, bondage, etc., which, by confusion with bond, have taken on an implication of servitude), orig. a contr. of Anglo-Saxon būende (= Icelandic bōndi, contr. of būandi, bōandi), dwelling, present participle of būan = Icelandic būa, dwell: see bond, bondman, etc., boor, bower, bower, big, be. Husband thus means literally ‘house-dweller,’ i. e. householder. According to a popular etymology, it is sometimes explained as house + band.
  2. from Middle English husbonden, from husbonde, the master of a house: see husband.
 

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