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Synonyms for unwed


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wed
Phonetic Transcription : wɛd

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Définition of unwed

Origin :
  • 1510s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of wed.
  • adj single
Example sentences :
  • And the youngest-born, the Lady Lucy, I take it, is yet unwed?
  • Extract from : « The White Rose of Langley » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • We lead the life of a political marriage, but the heart is unwed.
  • Extract from : « Old Fritz and the New Era » by Louise Muhlbach
  • Better for thee to have died childless and unwed than thus to bring shame on thy father and all thy kinsfolk and people.
  • Extract from : « Stories from the Iliad » by H. L. Havell
  • And the generations crowded one against another; a girl worried about spinsterhood if she reached seventeen unwed.
  • Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • The pitying world looks on and measures the unwed lovers' loss, but who can measure their gain?
  • Extract from : « The Land of Long Ago » by Eliza Calvert Hall
  • Why dost thou pass thy years unwed, following arms, thirsting for throats?
  • Extract from : « The Danish History, Books I-IX » by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
  • Under the moonlight dance the unwed brides, veiled and in flowing robes; Gerbert thinks he sees Ida among them.
  • Extract from : « Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 » by Eileen Edna Power
  • She had reached that second stage of unwed womanhood when interest in material things supersedes that of sentiment.
  • Extract from : « Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road » by R. Henry Mainer
  • Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • Under the moonlight dance the unwed brides, veiled and in flowing robes; Gerbert thinks he sees Ida amongst them.
  • Extract from : « Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) » by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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