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Webster 1913 Edition


Uxorious

Ux-o′ri-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
uxorius
, fr.
uxor
a wife.]
Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.
Uxorious magistrates.”
Milton.
How wouldst thou insult,
When I must live
uxorious
to thy will
In perfect thraldom!
Milton.
Ux-o′ri-ous-ly
,
adv.
Ux-o′ri-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Uxorious

UXO'RIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. uxorius, from uxor, wife.] Submissively fond of a wife.

Definition 2024


uxorious

uxorious

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uxorious (comparative more uxorious, superlative most uxorious)

  1. Overly devoted or 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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