waive
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
waive (waives, present participle waiving; past and past participle waived)
- (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.
- (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
- (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
- ante 1683 Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
- (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
- (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
- French: renoncer
- German: verzichten, aufgeben
- Italian: rinunciare
- Russian: отка́зываться
- Spanish: dispensar
waive (waives, present participle waiving; past and past participle waived)
- (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
- (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.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
- Italian: ondeggiare
waive (plural waives)
- (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
- (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?
- Italian: fuorilegge
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