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Hierome holds, Uxor impudica servari non potest, pudica non debet, infida custos castitatis est necessitas, to what end is all your custody?
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Uxor Mercatoris diu vexationibus tentata, &c. 6752.
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Uxor cujusdam nobilis quum debitum maritale sacro passionis hebdomada non obtineret, alterum adiit.
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Erit itaque, quum viderint to Aegyptii, dicent, Uxor ejus est: et occident me, et to servabunt vivam.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Uxor viro si clam domo egressa est foras, Viro fit causa, exigitur matrimonio.
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"Uxor se accusans, in confessione, quod negaverit debitum, interrogetur an ex pleno rigore juris sui id petiverit" (vol.vii. p. 168).
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy
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Selden's "Uxor Hebraica" gives the schedule of later
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Christian wife should "meet one of the brethren with a kiss" (alicui fratrum ad osculum convenire, "Ad Uxor.", ii, 4).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Thus we are told by the historian Spartianus that Verus, the colleague of Marcus Aurelius, did not hesitate to declare to his reproaching wife: "Uxor enim dignitatis nomen est, non voluptatis."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Ep. ad Jacob. 8 (tois men orphanois poiountes ta goneōn, tais de chērais ta andrōn, “acting the part of parents to orphans and of husbands to widows”); Tert., ad Uxor. i.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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