Hypertext Webster Gateway: "uxorial"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Uxorial \Ux*o"ri*al\, a. [See {Uxorious}.]
Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife;
uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.]

The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of
reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment.
--Geddes.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

uxorial
adj : of or befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: {wifely},
{wifelike}] [ant: {husbandly}]


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