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waivered | waived |

As an adjective waivered

is allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.

As a verb waived is

past tense of waive.

waivered

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • waived

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (waive)

    • Anagrams

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    waive

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (waiv)
  • (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.
    • If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
  • *
  • To put aside, avoid.
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    • Derived terms
    * waivable
    Related terms
    * waiver * waif

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (waiv)
  • (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  • (obsolete) To stray, wander.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
    • 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)
  • (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  • (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
    • (John Donne)

    Etymology 4

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
    • 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?