Saleware has a notorious reputation as a " wittol " a complaisant cuckold : his wife Alicia Saleware sleeps with prominent men for social and financial advantage.
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Purge is a " wittol " or complaisant cuckold, though he is distressed to learn that Mrs . Purge is having even more affairs with other sect members.
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The frightened Parson is cowed into the status of a wittol, a complaisant cuckold, as Wanton pursues her erotic adventures; he even joins in some of the further schemes of his tricksters.
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A related word, first appearing in 1520, is " wittol ", which substitutes " wit " ( in the sense of knowing ) for the first part of the word, referring to a man aware of and reconciled to his wife's infidelity.
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The comedy includes the amusing characters of Sir Joseph Wittol, a foolish knight, who allows himself to be really married to Silvia, under the impression that she is the wealthy Araminta; and his companion, the cowardly bully, Captain Bluffe, who under the same delusion is married to Silvia's maid.
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Lord Byron mentions Godoy in his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( Canto the First, XLVIII ), where a Spanish " lusty muleteer . . . chants " Viva el Rey " / And check his song to execrate Godoy, / The royal wittol Charles . . . " etc . and in the note to these lines he explains that " it is to this man that the Spaniards universally impute the ruin of their country ".
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an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife''s infidelity but tolerates it
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