Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of a wife; regarded as befitting a wife.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a wife or married woman; peculiar to or befitting a wife.
- Same as uxorious.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. befitting or characteristic of a wife
Etymologies
- From Latin uxorius, from uxor (wife) (Wiktionary)
- From Latin uxōrius, from uxor, wife. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After all, even Livia could not claim uxorial and maternal ties to three Augusti.”
“Only a sense of uxorial duty to his position stopped Hadrian from sending Sabina into exile.34”
“We got to see vintage big Bill again this summer as he saw his uxorial partner in political brazenness lose to a rookie.”
“Ought to be fun, will enjoy whatever tidbits you dole out regarding uxorial bliss later in life or not, some things are private, even for a blogger.”
“She takes the sandwich from him and bites into it, an uxorial gesture meant to allay suspicion.”
“As was so often the case, P.G. Wodehouse reached deep into the heart of the matter: collecting sporting memorabilia requires dedication, a willingness to speculate, a tolerance of risk and, too often, a certain amount of the ‘iron in the soul’ that equips a man to survive uxorial disapproval.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“Is that an unfair advantage in the never ending uxorial struggle to stay on the reservation?”
“Will I need to look uxorial up the next time John uses the word?”
“# Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinnon 14 Mar 2007 at 2:28 pm chang, not only did I need to look up uxorial, I had to look it up the last time Scalzi used the word.”
“Now I have been humbled by having to drop to my knees and propitiate the Great God Google to find out what “uxorial” meant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uxorial’.
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phrontistery-u
from phrontistery.info
uxorious, uxorial, uvid, uvelloid, uvala, utriform, utriculiform, utricle, utricide, utraquist, utinam, utilitarianism and 175 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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drseatbelt's Words
bilious, centenarian, droll, palliative, cortege, stultify, polysemy, suffuse, lambent, timorous, aegis, modicum and 236 more...
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Words!
expiate, litote, quixotic, expectorant, brakish, animadversion, militated, garish, rrulous, desiderate, desiderata, desideratum and 131 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for uxorial.

mcsilverback It's based on the name of Noah's wife (uxor) Jun 9, 2009
john dmbrthnu, that was annoying, and not just because it broke the front page. nobody wants to scroll through your gibberish. Oct 11, 2008
smrtrthnu the chemical formula is C132983H211861N36149O40883S693. Oct 11, 2008
smrtrthnu that's 189,819 letters, people. Oct 11, 2008
smrtrthnu comment removed by janitorial staff Oct 11, 2008
gangerh Well, except one maybe. Sep 27, 2008
gangerh Correct for not noticing my friends aren't. Sep 26, 2008
chained_bear *rimshot!* Sep 26, 2008
Prolagus People called Andy. :-) Sep 26, 2008
chained_bear Latvians? Or people who know the meaning of uxorial? ;) Sep 26, 2008
Prolagus They are the best dentists. Sep 26, 2008
gangerh No. 'twas my friend Andy, a Latvian dentist. Sep 26, 2008
bilby Was your wife the one who knew it, 'erh? Sep 26, 2008
reesetee Let's hope you won't have to. :-) Apr 25, 2008
gangerh Love this word. Used it in my wedding speech. 150 guests and only found one who knew what I meant! Won't use it in a wedding speech again. Apr 25, 2008
chained_bear Of or pertaining to a wife or wives. Oct 8, 2007