waive
verb
- relinquish, give up rights to
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /weɪv/ / /wɛjv/ / /wæɪv/
noun
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.
- A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
- A waif; a castaway.
“But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.
- To move from side to side; to sway.
- To stray, wander.