Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an uxorious manner; with foolish or doting fondness for a wife.
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- adverb In an
uxorious manner.
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- adverb in a loving and uxorious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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I find it difficult to believe them all uxoriously wed -- at any rate this is not a pleasure excursion.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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In the opposite direction young Mr. and Mrs. Trudgian could be seen just passing out of sight, he supporting her with his arm, pausing every now and then, bending over her uxoriously.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Sally, much less the uxoriously married Maria, and might have been merely an inconsiderate boarder who had given nothing but unimpaired
Sleeping Fires: a Novel Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Our dissenting brethren in the ministry are so uxoriously inclined that, perhaps, for this reason they dispute the possibility, as well as the privilege, of
The Faith of Our Fathers James Gibbons 1877
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"Because … I couldn't write them without you," says he, uxoriously.
Slate Articles Troy Patterson 2011
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Today Amis seems gloriously, almost uxoriously happy with Fonseca, mirroring the joy Keith eventually finds with his third wife Conchita.
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Today Amis seems gloriously, almost uxoriously happy with Fonseca, mirroring the joy Keith eventually finds with his third wife Conchita.
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