wittol

NOUN
  1. an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it
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How To Use wittol In A Sentence

  • “Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with shine eyes;” and struck her so that her head went flying. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Other words on the list include 'wittol' - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, which has not been much used since the 1940s. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • She would not quit the estate and title of the wittol who had wedded her. Kenilworth
  • When I really got into early modern culture, I learned that a ton of the sexual jokes involve men who are cuckolds; there's even a word for a cuckold who's happy about it, a wittol usually because he's happy someone else is satisfying his wife. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Melius sic errare, quam Zelotypiae curis, saith Erasmus, se conficere, better be a wittol and put it up, than to trouble himself to no purpose. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I should be sorry to interrupt the course of your pleasure; an old wittol should have more consideration of his condition. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • A wittol, a barber, and a bald-headed man travelled together. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
  • 413 The perfect stupidity of the old wittol is told with the driest Arab humour. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head, Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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