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uxorious
[uhk-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-, uhg-zawr-, -zohr-]
adjective
doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.
uxorious
/ ʌˈɔːɪə /
adjective
excessively attached to or dependent on one's wife
Other Word Forms
- uxoriously adverb
- uxoriousness noun
- unuxorious adjective
- unuxoriously adverb
- unuxoriousness noun
- ܳˈǰdzܲԱ noun
- ܳˈǰdzܲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of uxorious1
Example Sentences
With insight and aplomb, Roberts completes his mission, revealing the king to have been a conventional, conservative gentleman, uxorious husband and father of 15.
He was a famously uxorious husband said to have preyed upon his actresses and assistants.
He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss.
Perhaps the least successful part of the film is that which is most easily forgotten: the sad, slightly whimsically uxorious tale of Woody Harrelson and his wife, played by Abbie Cornish.
Hanks is famously uxorious, and his reliability as an actor is something that, from his first marriage at the age of 21, he has pegged to the stability of his home life.
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