uxoriousness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]uxoriousness (uncountable)
- Overt devotion or submissiveness to one's wife.
- 1835, Isaac D’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature[1], page 290:
- The uxoriousness of Charles [the First] is re-echoed by all the writers of a certain party.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 5:
- 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:
- 1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Dougherty’s Eye-opener”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1908, →OCLC, pages 32–33:
- 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.
- 1918 August 6, “‘Keep Her Smiling’ wins at the Astor”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1998 November 22, “An angel at my table”, in The Independent[3], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- He is the embodiment of uxoriousness, frequently turning the conversation back to Cath […]
- 2003 May 14, Janice Turner, “Boden's way”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Boden's uxoriousness, his belief that the mother of your children is still desirable, has defined his brand.
- 2007 February 3, Jemima Lewis, “Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands”, in The Independent[5], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- 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'."