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uxorious, a.|ʌkˈsɔərɪəs|
[f. L. ūxōri-us (f. ūxor wife): see -ous.]
1. Of persons: Dotingly or submissively fond of a wife; devotedly attached to a wife.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. vi, Whose mannish housewives..make a drudge of their uxorius mate. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. i, Hee's an asse that will be so vxorious, to tie his affections to one circle. 1649Milton Eikon. 64 Effeminate and Uxorious Magistrates, govern'd and overswaid at home under a Feminine usurpation. 1680C. Nesse Ch. Hist. 178 Whom, being an uxorious man, Jezabel his wife stirred up. 1730Fielding Rape upon Rape Wks. 1775 II. 39 You are not the only wife who would give her husband this advice... Were all men so uxorious to take it, Tyburn [etc.]. 1782W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 218 The uxorious monarch [sc. Solomon]. 1822T. Attwood in C. M. Wakefield Life (1885) vii. 89, I am a little what vulgar folks call uxorious, and am never truly eloquent upon any subject but my wife and children. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Charac. vii, A living warning to all uxorious old boys. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 150, I have found that uxorious men..may bring themselves into a somewhat similar state of debility.
transf.1708Prior Turtle & Sparrow 417 Uxorious Inmate, Bird obscene, Dar'st thou defile..These silent Seats of faithful Loves?
b. fig. (of inanimate objects, etc.).
1634Cartwright Ordinary i. iv, We have got One that will doe more good with 's tongue that way Than that uxorious showre that came from Heaven. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 196 Weary Ploughmen cursed the Stay Of the too Uxorious Day. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. ii. 19 Th' uxorious River glides away,..smooth-winding to the Sea. 1813H. & J. Smith Horace in London 19 Sir Francis..To father Thames commits his fate. In secret the uxorious tide Safe bears him to the Surrey side. 1863Conington tr. Horace, Odes i. ii. 20 Old Tiber,..spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows, Uxorious flood.
2. Of actions, etc.: Marked or characterized by excessive affection for one's wife.
1623B. Jonson Time Vind. ad fin., The Boy..hath plots upon you all. A Pensioner unto your wives, To keepe you in uxorious gives. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 13 Husbands..were wont to straw..vpon the graues..of their deceased deare wiues,..diuers purple flowers: by which vxorious office, they did..lessen the griefe of their hearts. a1704T. Brown Dial. Dead Wks. 1711 IV. 29 My dotage on her Charms had bred in me..a fond, blind, uxorious Vice. 1739Earl of Orrery in O. Papers (1903) I. 269 My Hours..at Caledon..slide away in uxorious happiness, and rustic Joys. 1813Edin. Rev. XXI. 199 The..uxorious propensities of the dynasty. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Mr. Watkins Tottle i, A rather uncommon compound of strong uxorious inclinations, and an unparalleled degree of anti-connubial timidity. 1879F. W. Farrar St. Paul I. 309 Claudius..with all his pedantic and uxorious eccentricity was not devoid..of kindness.
Hence uˈxoriously adv.
1647Stapylton Juvenal 87 If thou'lt uxoriously to one adhere, Submit thy willing necke the yoke to beare. 1693Dryden tr. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 292 If thou art thus Uxoriously inclin'd, To bear thy Bondage. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 152 Uxoriously led by the nose all your life. 1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 70 A foolish wife, of whom he was uxoriously fond. 1903Sat. Rev. 28 Feb. 261/1 She is quite worthy to have plays written uxoriously round her. |