a. Obs. Forms: 4 wyfyne, 4–5 wyuen(e. [f. wiv-, WIFE sb. + -EN1. (In some instances perh. wk. gen. pl. of wife.)] a. Womanly, feminine. b. Wifely.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 29. To … fette hom Felice From wyuene [v.r. wyuen] pyne.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvi. (Nicholas), 178. His body waikly he fed, & wyfyne company ay fled.
c. 1400. Trevisa’s Higden (Rolls), VI. 213. Þanne þe queene byȝede here housbonde wiþ benygne [v.rr. wyvene, wyven] flaterynge [L. uxoriis deliramentis].
