/weɪv/, /wɛjv/, /wev/
OriginFrom Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.
- transitiveTo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
“If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.”
“Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the”
“The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period”
- transitiveTo relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
- archaicTo put aside, avoid.
“[…] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others”
- obsoleteTo outlaw (someone).
- obsoleteTo abandon, give up (someone or something).
“but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.”
- obsoleteTo move from side to side; to sway.
- intransitive, obsoleteTo stray, wander.
- obsoleteA woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
- obsoleteA waif; a castaway.
“But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?”
Formswaives(present, singular, third-person) · waiving(participle, present) · waived(participle, past) · waived(past) · wave(alternative, obsolete) · waives(plural)