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verb

Waive v. t. (past & past part. waived; pres. part. waiving) (Written also wave)

To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. "He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all." "We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others."

To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

(Law)

(a)

To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.

(b)

(O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. Note: 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.

Waive v. i. To turn aside; to recede. (Obs.) "To waive from the word of Solomon."

noun

Waive n.

A waif; a castaway. (Obs.)

(O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

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... judge, "could on an occasion waive her claim to a subordinate link in the testimony she requires, it would certainly be in a case so painful and affecting as this. Still, we cannot permit personal feeling, however amiable, or domestic attachment, however strong, to impede her progress when ...

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— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... life retrack To its first hour, and pick out such descent As man might wish for e'en to pride's content, I should rest satisfied with mine, nor choose New parents, decked with senatorial shoes, Mad, most would think me, sane, as you'll allow, To waive a load ne'er thrust on me till now. More gear 'twould make me get without delay, More bows there'd be to make, more calls to pay, A friend or two must still be at my side, That all alone I might ...

— The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry • Horace

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— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

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— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

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