husbandly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English housbondly, equivalent to husband + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
husbandly (comparative more husbandly, superlative most husbandly)
- Characteristic of a husband; proper and fitting for a husband; marital.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 177:
- One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.
- 2008 May 26, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times[1]:
- He strives for husbandly allure in slow-motion ballads: “Love You Gently” and the role-reversing “Trading Places,” in which he calls for her to be the aggressive one and offers to make breakfast the next morning.
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 211:
- As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
- (obsolete) Frugal; economical.
- 1707, Ofspring Blackall, The blessedness of the poor in spirit:
- Even he that has the most of all is nevertheless oblig'd to be Frugal and Husbandly, and not to lavish or squander away what he has [...].
Translations[edit]
Having the characteristics of a husband
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Frugal; economical
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