Definition of uxorious in English:

uxorious

adjective ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs

Having or showing a great or excessive fondness for one's wife.
he had always impressed me as home-loving and uxorious
Example sentencesExamples
- Both are uxorious men, both delight in their young families.
- Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs.
- An uxorious man, he had brought to Australia his wife Vanessa, despite her phobia about flying.
- He was an almost perfect spouse - uxorious, hard working, a good provider; gentle.
- He is famously uxorious but seldom lets the cameras catch a glimpse of Moira, his wife.

Derivatives

uxoriously

adverb

But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane.
Example sentencesExamples
- Having read his correspondence, I can only think he was uxoriously fond of his wife.

uxoriousness

nounʌkˈsɔːrɪəsnəs

But this is a rag-bag of a play, not much helped by the director who, through misplaced uxoriousness, has preserved every word.
Example sentencesExamples
- He's a series of contradictory characteristics - valor/cowardice, nobility/cravenness, promiscuity / uxoriousness, selfishness/camaraderie, and every one of them is genuine, as the situation demands.
- The upper-class is too immured in money and cushioned by creature comforts and servants to know anything about uxoriousness.
- Virtually nothing is seen of his 25-year relationship with his second wife, Julia, who, he says, steered him from a failing marriage and compulsive promiscuity into ‘a harbour of safe uxoriousness’.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor 'wife'.

Rhymes

censorious, glorious, laborious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, vainglorious, victorious

Definition of uxorious in US English:

uxorious

adjective

Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife.
he had always impressed me as home-loving and uxorious
Example sentencesExamples
- Both are uxorious men, both delight in their young families.
- He was an almost perfect spouse - uxorious, hard working, a good provider; gentle.
- He is famously uxorious but seldom lets the cameras catch a glimpse of Moira, his wife.
- An uxorious man, he had brought to Australia his wife Vanessa, despite her phobia about flying.
- Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor ‘wife’.

单词	uxorious
释义	Definition of uxorious in English: uxorious adjective ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs Having or showing a great or excessive fondness for one's wife. he had always impressed me as home-loving and uxorious Example sentencesExamples Both are uxorious men, both delight in their young families. Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs. An uxorious man, he had brought to Australia his wife Vanessa, despite her phobia about flying. He was an almost perfect spouse - uxorious, hard working, a good provider; gentle. He is famously uxorious but seldom lets the cameras catch a glimpse of Moira, his wife. Derivatives uxoriously adverb But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Example sentencesExamples Having read his correspondence, I can only think he was uxoriously fond of his wife. uxoriousness nounʌkˈsɔːrɪəsnəs But this is a rag-bag of a play, not much helped by the director who, through misplaced uxoriousness, has preserved every word. Example sentencesExamples He's a series of contradictory characteristics - valor/cowardice, nobility/cravenness, promiscuity / uxoriousness, selfishness/camaraderie, and every one of them is genuine, as the situation demands. The upper-class is too immured in money and cushioned by creature comforts and servants to know anything about uxoriousness. Virtually nothing is seen of his 25-year relationship with his second wife, Julia, who, he says, steered him from a failing marriage and compulsive promiscuity into ‘a harbour of safe uxoriousness’. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor 'wife'. Rhymes censorious, glorious, laborious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, vainglorious, victorious Definition of uxorious in US English: uxorious adjective Having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife. he had always impressed me as home-loving and uxorious Example sentencesExamples Both are uxorious men, both delight in their young families. He was an almost perfect spouse - uxorious, hard working, a good provider; gentle. He is famously uxorious but seldom lets the cameras catch a glimpse of Moira, his wife. An uxorious man, he had brought to Australia his wife Vanessa, despite her phobia about flying. Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor ‘wife’.
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