wively
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wifly, equivalent to wife + -ly.
Adjective[edit]
wively (comparative more wively, superlative most wively)
- Obsolete form of wifely.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- But Basilius could not abstaine from praising Parthenia , as the perfect picture of a womanly vertue , and wively
- 1690, [John] Dryden, Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosia’s. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]; and M. Tonson […], published 1691, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- With all the tenderness of Wively Love
- 2004, Journal of Historical Research, volumes 46-48, page 49:
- Hence, self sacrifice like that of original Sati became a divine example of wively devotion, the best measure of judging the women's virtue as well as her loyalty towards her husband.
References[edit]
- “wively”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.