waive
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waive (waives, present participle waiving; past and past participle waived)

  1. (transitive, legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
    If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
    1. (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
  2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
    • ante 1683 Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
      […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
  3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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waive (waives, present participle waiving; past and past participle waived)

  1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
      ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
Translations Noun

waive (plural waives)

  1. (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
    • […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?
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