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  • verb Present participle of wive.

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Examples

  • And tonight we'll be talking to an actual wiving legend.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2008 2008

  • If this be true now, as some out of experience will inform us, farewell wiving for my part, and as the comical poet merrily saith,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Believe-on-Me, that is the land of promise which behoves to the king Delightful and shall be for ever where there is no death and no birth neither wiving nor mothering at which all shall come as many as believe on it?

    Ulysses 2003

  • The same Harry Mudd who had trafficked in beautiful women, "wiving settlers," as he called it, and who had nearly destroyed the Enterprise in the bargain.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • The same Harry Mudd who had trafficked in beautiful women, "wiving settlers," as he called it, and who had nearly destroyed the Enterprise in the bargain.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • The same Harry Mudd who had trafficked in beautiful women, "wiving settlers," as he called it, and who had nearly destroyed the Enterprise in the bargain.

    Mudd in Your Eye Jerry Oltion 1990

  • If you don't make her warm enough for wiving, you're an oaf, which is not in my blood -- nor your mother's, to be honest.

    The Highwayman 1919

  • William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) 667Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

    Quotations 1919

  • 'They say hanging and wiving go by destiny, and clearly my destiny is to become the wife of Collin McKeith.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • He often told himself that "hanging and wiving go by destiny."

    The song of the lark 1915

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