waivery
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]waivery (usually uncountable, plural waiveries)
- (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.