uxorially
advEtymology From uxorial + -ly.
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In an uxorial fashion.
- 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:
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- ...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: