Meanings
adverbuxorially (not comparable)
- not comparableIn an uxorial fashion.
Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed...
1970, Joseph Collins, Idling in Italy2 more examples
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...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
Origin
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