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waive
English
Alternative forms
- wave (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?v, IPA(key): /we?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
- Homophone: wave
Etymology 1
From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from waif (“waif”).
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
- (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
- (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
- (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
- a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
- […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
- a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:
- (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
- (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
Derived terms
- waivable
- waiver
Related terms
- waiver
- waif
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijan?.
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
- (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:
Translations
Etymology 3
From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.
Noun
waive (plural waives)
- (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
- (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
- […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?
Translations
Anagrams
- aview
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exemption
English
Etymology
From Old French exemption, from Latin exempti?, from exim?.
Noun
exemption (countable and uncountable, plural exemptions)
- An act of exempting.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
Synonyms
- free pass
- get out of jail free card
- immunity
Translations
French
Pronunciation
Noun
exemption f (plural exemptions)
- exemption
Synonyms
- dispense
Further reading
- “exemption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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