uxorious
/ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs
/adjective
Having or showing a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife: he had always impressed me as home-loving and uxorious...
- 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.
- Domingo is highly courtly and uxorious towards her, despite the abounding stories of affairs.
Derivatives
uxoriously
- 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.
- Having read his correspondence, I can only think he was uxoriously fond of his wife.
uxoriousness
- 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.
- 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’.
- The upper-class is too immured in money and cushioned by creature comforts and servants to know anything about uxoriousness.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor 'wife'.