How To Use Wittol In A Sentence
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“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
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Other words on the list include 'wittol' - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, which has not been much used since the 1940s.
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She would not quit the estate and title of the wittol who had wedded her.
Kenilworth
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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413 The perfect stupidity of the old wittol is told with the driest Arab humour.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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