uxorial

You call them uxorial, but we both know what they are.

What's more, keeping so important a secret can be as stressful as any hypothetical uxorial hovering.

Those uxorial memories are very strong.

'Married men develop what British airmen used to call "uxorial drag".'

"It's hard to imagine that Great Admiral yielding to, ah, uxorial blandishments."

He has gone, leaving behind him a young, inconsolable widow, with whom he shared but two years of uxorial bliss.

Since my accident she feels an uxorial obligation to attend me twenty-four hours a day-and this for a single fractured rib.

"You know perfectly well Henry of England disinherited her from the succession in the midst of his uxorial fluctuations.

Touched by this manifestation of uxorial loyalty, Mr. Moynihan bent down and plucked a yellow chrysanthemum from a White House flowerbed and presented it to his spouse.

None of the Greeks are - not even Odysseus, who in the Iliad has yet to acquire the uxorial steadfastness (if not strict fidelity) that he demonstrates in the Odyssey.

When Wilkie's anomie deprives Jenny of her regular occupation - typing and editing his manuscripts - Lee employs Jenny as a part-time receptionist and finds herself romantically attracted to the waiflike, woefully underappreciated "walking anachronism" of uxorial devotion.