Waive Definition
(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
Obsolete form of waif.
Origin of Waive
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Middle English weiven to abandon from Anglo-Norman weyver from waif ownerless property waif1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English weyven, from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing") (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijanÄ….
From Wiktionary
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Middle English weyven, from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif"), from weyf (“waif").
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From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.
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Variant forms.
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