Waive

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.1.2 Rhymes 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.4 Transitive verb 1.5 Notes 1.6 Intransitive verb

English

Pronunciation

• wāv, /weɪv/, /weIv/

Homophones

• wave

Rhymes

Etymology

From weiven to abandon

Noun

waive (plural: waives )

1. (Obsolete) A waif; a castaway. - John Donne
2. (Obsolete English Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law.

Transitive verb

to waive (waives, waived, waiving)

1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

   Quotations

   • He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. - Geoffrey Chaucer
   • We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,

   absolutely yielding to the direction of others. - Barrow

2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
3. (Law):
   1. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right

      which one may enforce if he chooses.

   2. (Obsolete English Law) To desert; to abandon. - Burrill

Notes

The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. --Burrill.

Intransitive verb

to waive (waives, waived, waiving)

1. (Obsolete) To turn aside; to recede.

   Quotations

   • To waive from the word of Solomon. - Geoffrey Chaucer .