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Webster 1913 Edition


Spousess

Spous′ess

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Noun.
A wife or bride.
[Obs.]
Fabyan.

Definition 2024


spousess

spousess

English

Noun

spousess (plural not attested)

  1. (obsolete) A wife or bride.
    • 2007, Anne Crawford, quoting Robert Fabyan, The Yorkists: The history of a dynasty. (History), quoted in The New Chronicles of England and France (1515), ISBN 9781852853518, page 68:
      One account has it that at the ceremony there 'were no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlemen and a young man to help the priest sing.'

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