Waive vs Withhold - What's the difference?
waive | withhold |
(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 :
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
As verbs the difference between waive and withhold
is that waive is (obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway while withhold is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.As a noun waive
is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be .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?
