uxorious

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin uxorius (“of or pertaining to a wife”) from uxor (“wife”), late 16th c..

Pronunciation

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Adjective

uxorious (comparative more uxorious, superlative most uxorious)

  1. Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife.
    • 1991, The Advertiser, 12 Oct.,
      She was the cross her cuckolded, incompatible husband had to bear, and he was—beneath those fantastic uniforms—the pathetic, uxorious human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time.

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