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unwive ‎(third-person singular simple present unwives, present participle unwiving, simple past and past participle unwived)

(transitive, archaic) To divest of a wife; to divorce (someone) from his wife.
(transitive, archaic) To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.
- 1914, Ainslee's (volume 32, page 74)
  State law was not needed to unwive her. She had never been a wife. She had experienced nothing, given nothing. She had mocked passion with barter, and starved love with selfishness.