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uxoriousness

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ux·o·ri·ous  (k-sôr-s, -sr-, g-zôr-, -zr-)
adj.
Excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife.
[From Latin uxrius, from uxor, wife.]
ux·ori·ous·ly adv.
ux·ori·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.uxoriousness - foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wifeuxoriousness - foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife
affectionateness, lovingness, fondness, warmth - a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
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uxoriousness
n → Ergebenheit f → seiner Frau gegenüber
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12) The widely circulated medieval versions of the story pick up on this hostility, embellishing the tale by intensifying both the first husband's uxoriousness and the widow's macabre and callous independence of him.
"A fine and private place": chapman's theatrical widow by Hodgson, Elizabeth / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
37) Hirst sees The Kings Cabinet Opened as an important challenge to assumptions that privacy and affectivity were pioneered by the middling classes (and separate from affairs of state): he stresses the language of sex, seduction, and uxoriousness.
Opening the queen's closet: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth Cromwell, and ... by Knoppers, Laura Lunger / Renaissance Quarterly
In spite of that, Adam is enlisted in Cranach's long sequence of pictures of imprudent lovers; added, because of Adam's uxoriousness, to Samson with Delilah, Holofernes with Judith, Sisera with Jael, and in a jocular series, old men with young whores.
The prime of Lucas Cranach by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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