waivery

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English

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Etymology

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From waive +‎ -ry.

Noun

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waivery (usually uncountable, plural waiveries)

  1. (historical) The outlawry of a woman.
    • 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:
      Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.