Meaning

Overt devotion or submissiveness to one's wife..

Example Sentences

The uxoriousness of Charles [the First] is re-echoed by all the writers of a certain party.

Then, like a shadow, past the people’s talk / And accusation of uxoriousness / Across her mind, and bowing over him, / Low to her own heart piteously she said:

Mr. Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance.

There were times when it seemed that the comedy, verging though it did on the wildest farce, might include a certain reflection upon the sin of uxoriousness.

He is the embodiment of uxoriousness, frequently turning the conversation back to Cath […]

Boden's uxoriousness, his belief that the mother of your children is still desirable, has defined his brand.

Yet men go into matrimony as if to the gallows. Even my own husband - a model of uxoriousness, so far - turned a whiter shade of pale the night before our wedding. "I'm having a funny feeling," he confided, lying rigid on our bed like a felled tree. "I think it's called 'fight or flight'."

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