Middle English Dictionary Entry

wīven v.
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Note: Cp. iwiven v.
1.
(a) To take a wife or husband, marry;—usu. used of a man; also refl.; sometimes in proverbs; ~ on (o), of a man: marry (a woman), wed; ille wiwande, of a man: unhappily married; (b) of a man: to take (a woman) to wife, marry; (c) ?to join (sb.) in a spiritual union with Christ;—prob. error for nevenen v. 1. or perh. weven v.(2) 6.