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wit⋅tol

  [wit-l]
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–noun Archaic.
a man who knows of and tolerates his wife's infidelity.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME wetewold, equiv. to wete wit 2 + (coke)wold cuckold
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wit·tol   (wĭt'l)   
n.   Archaic
A man who knows of and tolerates his wife's infidelity.

[Middle English wetewold : weten, to know (from Old English witan; see wit2) + (coke)wold, cuckold; see cuckold.]
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