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uxorially en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English uxorial Middle English -ly English -ly English uxorially From uxorial + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In an uxorial fashion.
    • ...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm. 1992, Jean H Hagstrum, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare:
    • 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... 1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Side-lights on English Society:
    • Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed... 1970, Joseph Collins, Idling in Italy: