uxorial
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
uxorial (not comparable)
- (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a wife, or her genes or relative#Noun|relatives.
- (of or pertaining to a wife) Synonyms: wifelike, wifely, wifey
- (comparable) devoted#Adjective|Devoted to one's wife; uxorious.
- 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life [...] In Four Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 457185834 ↗, book eighth, page 368 ↗:
- Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress.
- et ux., et ux
- jure uxoris
- uxoriality
- uxorially
- Italian: uxorio
- Spanish: uxorio
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