uxorial

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  1. adjective Of a wife; regarded as befitting a wife.

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  • Is the curlew an uxorial —  Tobogganing on Parnassus
  • Favorinus, who was a remarkably sensible man, and came from Provence -- the male inhabitants of which district have always valued themselves on their knowledge of love and ladies -- calls this said/stata forma/the beauty of wives, -- the uxorial beauty. —  My Novel — Volume 04
  • Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress. —  My Novel — Volume 08
  • And Favorinus, who was a remarkably sensible man, and came from Provence -- the male inhabitants of which district have always valued themselves on their knowledge of love and ladies -- calls this said stata forma the beauty of wives, -- the uxorial beauty. —  My Novel — Complete
  • Aunt Green, whom the general at first lovingly saluted as his wife (for the poor man had entirely forgotten the uxorial appearance), was all in a pucker for deafness, blindness, and evident misapprehension of all things in general, though clearly pleased, and flattered at her gallant nephew's salutation. —  The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
 

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  1. From Latin uxōrius, from uxor, wife.

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  1. from Latin uxor, a wife, + -i-al.
 

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/əkˈsoʊriəl/
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