OriginFrom wife (noun) + -ed (“having”).
- in-compounds, not-comparable, often, rareHaving a wife or the specified number of wives.
“If a man of many wives starts with as much love for his first wife as ordinary one-wifed men have for theirs, and goes on increasing his love with each additional wife, so that he can always say to th”
“It was whispered about on Tuesday morning that we were to have a Mormon woman as a speaker, and so it proved—Mrs. Emily S[ophia] Richards, delegate from the Women’s Association of that territory. “Her”
““You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.””
- form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of wife