waved

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Ono wived by letting husbands go; she mothered her daughter by letting her go.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012

Scoffers at U. S. learning might with a modicum of justice point out that Dr. Carrel is French-born, educated and wived, that Dr. Landsteiner is Austrian-born, educated and wived.

From Time Magazine Archive

From his mother the Evening Post learned their names, and that Soso has twice wived.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is Cassio's warm-hearted, yet perfectly disengaged, praise of Desdemona, and sympathy with the “most fortunately” wived Othello;—and yet Cassio is an enthusiastic admirer, almost a worshipper, of Desdemona.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Remember Count Gleichen, doubly wived, who pined in Egypt, There wed the Pasha's daughter Malachsala, Nor blushed to bring his heathen paramour Home to his noble wife Angelica, Countess of Orlamund.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma