Meanings
- not comparablerareWithout wives.
Many persons meet untimely deaths, children become homeless; husbands become wivesless and vice versa.
1987, Em E Aṃsārī, Tribals in Criminal Web, Jaipur: Publication Scheme, page 1482 more examples
They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to stay home and merely watch TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.
1956 June 26, Elm, “Summer Bachelors”, in The Ottawa Herald, volume 60, number 171, Ottawa, Kan., page 4, column 1And the professors read the law from heavy tomes to the Roman abductors of their wives (the rights of the people), and then marching two steps forward, one step backward, they return, wivesless!
1968, New Review, New York, N.Y.: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, page 145
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