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uxorious

[ uhk-sawr-ee-uhs, -sohr-, uhg-zawr-, -zohr- ]

adjective

  1. doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.


uxorious

/ ʌˈɔːɪə /

adjective

  1. excessively attached to or dependent on one's wife
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ܳˈǰdzܲԱ, noun
  • ܳˈǰdzܲ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ܳ·۾·dzܲ· adverb
  • ܳ·۾·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ܲu·۾·dzܲ adjective
  • unܳ·۾·dzܲ· adverb
  • unܳ·۾·dzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of uxorious1

1590–1600; < Latin ūōܲ, equivalent to ūǰ wife + -ius -ious
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of uxorious1

C16: from Latin ܳōܲ concerning a wife, from uxor wife
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Example Sentences

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With insight and aplomb, Roberts completes his mission, revealing the king to have been a conventional, conservative gentleman, uxorious husband and father of 15.

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He was a famously uxorious husband said to have preyed upon his actresses and assistants.

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He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss.

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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.

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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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