unhenpecked en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + henpecked.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not henpecked.
But neither of us can think of a solitary case where a woman had a career and managed to have a balanced (mentally) family including an unhenpecked husband.
1990, Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid, More mathematical people: contemporary conversations, page 224:If women knew how to treat men, not a husband, unhenpecked, would be found from Indos to the Pole.
1857, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?:They make their world sound as if it were an extension of the Wild West, which in a way it is, with boomers today still regarding themselves as pioneering men, the last of America's unhenpecked heroes […]
2014, Gay Talese, The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, page 5: