One 1736 dictionary defined “wife” as “a married woman whose will, in the judgment of the law, is subject to the will of her husband: for which reason a wife is said to have no will.”
Un diccionario de 1736 definía “esposa” como “una mujer casada cuya voluntad, de acuerdo a la ley, está sujeta a la voluntad de su marido, por tal razón, se dice que una esposa no tiene voluntad”.