desertivus

desertivus , (as sb. f.) woman abandoned by husband. ne quis Christianus ‥ uxorem ducat ‥ commatrem suam neque sanctimonialem neque ~am [AS: on œlœtan ‥ gewifige] (Cons. Cnuti) GAS 291 (cf. (Quad.) ib.: repudiatam; (Inst. Cnuti) ib.: in alterius relicta, quam Angli vocant oþres mannes œlœte).