English

Etymology
From weiven to abandon

Pronunciation
w�v, /weɪv/, /<tt>weIv</tt>/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-e?v|Rhymes: -e?v

Homophones
wave

Noun
en-noun

1. obsolete A waif; a castaway. - w:John Donne|John Donne
2. UK|obsolete|law A woman put out of the protection of the law.

Verb
en-verb|waives|waiving|waived

1. transitive To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

#:Quotations
#:*He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. - w:Geoffrey Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer
#:*We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. - w:Barrow|Barrow

1. transitive To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
2. law To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses; to give up a right, privilege or restriction; as with a waiver.

#:If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

1. UK obsolete law To desert; to abandon. - w:Burrill|Burrill
2. intransitive obsolete To turn aside; to recede.

#:Quotations
#:*To waive from the word of Solomon. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Derived terms
waivable
waiver

Usage notes
The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. --Burrill.

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