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单词 wiven
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wivenadj.

Forms: Middle English wyuen, Middle English wyuene, Middle English wyven, Middle English wyvene; Scottish pre-1700 wyfyne.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: wife n.
Etymology: < the genitive plural of wife n., with the ending probably misapprehended as -en suffix1.In origin the form shows a weak genitive plural ending (the reflex of Old English -ena ) generalized in early Middle English (the regular Old English genitive plural form was wīfa ); compare wife n. Forms 2bβ. . The following example reflects confusion about the ending already in early Middle English (compare wife n. Forms 2bδ. and discussion at that entry):a1300 in W. H. Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae (1867) III. 70 Reddendo..octo solidos, unam gallinam ad Natale de pretio unius denarii et in vigilia Beatis Johannis Baptistae de Wivenesweddinge, et valet obolum.
Obsolete.
Womanly, feminine; (also) wifely.
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the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to
wifelyeOE
womanisha1393
femalea1398
wivenc1400
feminine1490
womanly1562
gynaecian1640
muliebral1651
feminal1739
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife
wifelyOE
wivenc1400
wifelike1566
wifish1607
uxorial1800
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. l. 29 To..fecche [hom] felis fro wyuene [c1425 Liverpool Univ. wyuen] pyne.
c1400 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Tiber.) (1876) VI. 213 Wyvene [a1425 Harl. wyven; a1387 St. John's Cambr. Þanne þe queene byȝede here housbonde wiþ benygne flaterynge; L. uxoriis deliramentis].
c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 178 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 486 His body waikly he fed, & wyfyne company ay fled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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