wives

plural of wife

Noun

  1. plural of wife
  2. genitive of wife
    • […] beautie in his wiues face, will féede his heart with a thouſand delights: […] - 1582 February 3, George Whetstone, An Heptameron of Ciuill Discourses. […], London: […] Richard Iones, […]:
    • […] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake ſo unluckily, […] - 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery...
    • He found a freſh Subject for his Admiration, when he ſaw the Prickles on that which bore his Wives Name, and the two others without any. - 1711, [Laurent] B[ordelon], translated by [unknown], A History of the Ridiculous...