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wife: see husband and wife husband and wife, the legal aspects of the married state (for the sociological aspects, see marriage). The Marriage Contract


Marriage is a contractual relationship between a man and a woman that vests the parties with a new legal status.
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wife
a man's partner in marriage; a married woman


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MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England.
The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context
The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Here, reader, I beg your patience a moment, while I make a just compliment to the great wisdom and sagacity of our law, which refuses to admit the evidence of a wife for or against her husband.
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