Waive vs False - What's the difference?
waive | false |
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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(legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
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To put aside, avoid.
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(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(obsolete) To stray, wander.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
(obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
* 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb waive
is (obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway.As a noun waive
is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.waive
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Derived terms
* waivableEtymology 2
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- (John Donne)
Etymology 4
Variant forms.Noun
(en noun)- I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but 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?
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
