wiving

"Chosen, I am able to work my wiving wherever the seas permit.

"I must begin my wiving.

Thou'st cause, when the slave will run a wiving, Dol, Against the instrument that was drawn between us.

Our second, stone for Pitchwife's wiving.

Ercole and Torquato Tasso, Of Mariage and Wiving, trans.

As a woman she had chosen and had the powers of a woman, in their time, and the time was past; her wiving and mothering was done.

Because Robert Tofte's Of Mariage and Wiving and the anonymous xv ioyes of marriage are literary translations that do not directly relate to England's contemporary political climate, some scholars suppose that the anti-marriage rhetoric of these two books was perceived as sedition against Elizabeth I.