uxorially

English

Etymology

uxorial +‎ -ly

Adverb

uxorially (not comparable)

1. In an uxorial fashion.
   • 1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Side-lights on English Society:

     Clerical husbands who have been uxorially driven by wives who wielded their father's croziers, so to say, have been known to jib — nay, to kick out...

   • 1970, Joseph Collins, Idling in Italy:

     Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed...

   • 1992, Jean H Hagstrum, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare:

     ...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm.