uxorial

Adjective

uxorial (not generally comparable, comparative more uxorial, superlative most uxorial)

1. (not comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to a wife, or her genes or relatives.
   • We ſtill ſay that a huſband hangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a ſhort time; and on ſuch occaſions a broom beſom has been exhibited as a ſignal that the houſe was freed from uxorial reſtraint, and where the maſter might be conſidered as a temporary bachelor.1778, William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, “Tempest”, in The Plays of William Shakespeare. in Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; […], 2nd...
   • So that it appears, that while the man [of Ancient Greece or Rome] might, with impunity, prostitute his wife to all his connexions, the beautiful but enslaved victim was to be punished with death, if, after such prostitution of her person by the express command of her husband, her eye should stray...1800 May 16, [His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews], “Debate in the Lords on the Adultery Prevention Bill”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from...

   Synonyms:

   wifelike, wifely, wifey

2. (comparable, not comparable, usually) Devoted to one's wife; uxorious.
   • Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress.1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book eighth...
   • He introduced the woman to his wife, feeling an unfamiliar uxorial pride as he did it, showing off Emily's angular beauty at forty-four to this worn and hollowed former girl, misshapen from labor and rural poverty, who might have been any age between thirty-five and fifty-five, and who had reached...2013, Thomas Keneally, chapter 19, in Shame and the Captives (A Knopf Book), North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN; 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press...