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unwaived


verb (used with object), waived, waiv·ing.

  1. to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one’s right; to waive one’s rank; to waive honors.
  2. Law. to relinquish (a known right, interest, etc.) intentionally.
  3. to put aside for the time; defer; postpone; dispense with: to waive formalities.
  4. to put aside or dismiss from consideration or discussion: waiving my attempts to explain.

verb (tr)

  1. to set aside or relinquishto waive one’s right to something
  2. to refrain from enforcing (a claim) or applying (a law, penalty, etc)
  3. to defer

v.c.1300, from Anglo-French weyver “to abandon, waive,” Old French weyver, guever “to abandon, give back,” probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse veifa “to swing about,” from Proto-Germanic *waibijanan (see waif). In Middle English legal language, used of rights, goods, or women. Related: Waived; waiving.

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