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uxorially

uxorially adverb: in an uxorial fashion.

Adverb

uxorially (not comparable)

  1. In an uxorial fashion.
    • Clerical husbands who have been uxorially driven by wives who wielded their father's croziers, so to say, have been known to jib — nay, to kick out...1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Side-lights on English Society
    • Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed...1970, Joseph Collins, Idling in Italy

Origin of uxorially

From uxorial + -ly.

Questions about uxorially

What does uxorially mean?
Uxorially means in an uxorial fashion.
What part of speech is uxorially?
Uxorially is an adverb.

Words near uxorially in the dictionary

  1. Uxin
  2. Uxmal
  3. UXO
  4. uxorial
  5. uxoriality
  6. uxorially
  7. uxoricidal
  8. uxoricide
  9. uxoricides
  10. uxorilocal
  11. uxorilocality

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