Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective:
uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective:
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Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.
Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.
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If the B.O. were as attentive to following the actual Constitution as he is at being an uxorious husband, the country would not be currently headed down the road to perdition!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive shopper she has always been.-- Angela Huth, "All you need is love", Daily Telegraph, April 24, 1998
It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive shopper she has always been.-- Angela Huth, "All you need is love", Daily Telegraph, April 24, 1998
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Flagler seems to have been an uxorious, domestic man, who liked the comfort and companionship of a wife at his side.-- Michael Browning, "Whitehall at 100", Palm Beach Post, February 22, 2002
Flagler seems to have been an uxorious, domestic man, who liked the comfort and companionship of a wife at his side.-- Michael Browning, "Whitehall at 100", Palm Beach Post, February 22, 2002
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Fuller is as uxorious a poet as they come: hiatuses in the couple's mutual understanding are overcome with such rapidity as to be hardly worth mentioning in the first place ("How easy, this ability / To lose whatever we possess / By ceasing to believe that we / Deserve such brilliant success").-- David Wheatley, "Round and round we go", The Guardian, October 5, 2002
Fuller is as uxorious a poet as they come: hiatuses in the couple's mutual understanding are overcome with such rapidity as to be hardly worth mentioning in the first place ("How easy, this ability / To lose whatever we possess / By ceasing to believe that we / Deserve such brilliant success").-- David Wheatley, "Round and round we go", The Guardian, October 5, 2002
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Uxorious is from Latin uxorius, from uxor, wife.
Uxorious is from Latin uxorius, from uxor, wife.
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