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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no wife.

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Examples

  • As the Bibo Sez, it was not the "gates of hell" that prevailed over the Catholic Church, it was the Devil Satan hisself who turned their unwived priests into boy-touchers, and their coffers into punitive award settlement accounts for all eternity.

    TEXAS FAITH: How does a faith adapt without losing its meaning? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Guercino lived the life of an anchorite, absorbed in studies, unwived, sober, pious, truthful, sincere in his commerce with the world, unaffectedly virtuous, devoted to his art and God.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Is it not the clearest, ay, sternest necessity that those of us who are unwived, to our sorrow though it be, should take the women who remain, be they maids or widows, in honorable wedlock, and rear up children to fill our places when we are gone?

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

  • Oh, had she but been a virtuous woman -- an honorable wife, he had not dared assume to govern her! but when of a girl's age, she had acted like a woman; when a wife she had acted like the dissolute and unwived; when a mother, she had disembarrassed herself of the token of her glory of maternity.

    The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

  • The sons of the New World will have to re-act, on a magnificent scale, the old story of unwived Rome and the Sabines.

    Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Edward Hammond Clarke 1848

  • "Last night, Master Winslow standing between the graves of his wife and mine, read me a lecture upon the duty unwived men owe to the community.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

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