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- datednot comparableDated form of wifeless.
I’ve canvassed enough to know that it is usually the wiveless men who shout the most about the wife.
1920, Oreola Williams Haskell, Banner Bearers: Tales of the Suffrage Campaigns, page 1242 more examples
And the widows of murdered men—not sharing that exile—accepted the wiveless men of Ades as their deliverers.
1947, Murray Leinster, The Boomerang Circuit; republished as “The Boomerang Circuit”, in Black Cat Weekly, number 58, 2022, page 657Affluent but wiveless miners of the California gold fields advertised in eastern newspapers for wives, and many women booked passage on ships sailing round the Horn to become brides of these men.
1975 August 29, Gene Siler, “On ‘Mail-Order’ Brides”, in The Corbin Times-Tribune, page 4
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