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et uxor

American  
[et uhk-sawr, -sohr, uhg-zawr, -zohr] / ɛt ˈʌk sɔr, -soʊr, ˈʌg zɔr, -zoʊr /
Latin.
  1. and wife (used chiefly in its abbreviated form, in legal abstracts of title). et ux.


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This appears clearly in such an entry as "Bishop the crossbowman," or "Johannes Monacus et uxor ejus Emma," living in Kent in the twelfth century.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Sept. 28th, Mr. John Ask ante meridiem, by York six myle on this syde; Elizabeth Mownson, circa horam 9 mane, soror magistri Thomæ Mownson et uxor magistri Brown.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

Sum rerum felix, fœcunda est prolis et uxor, Plena domus, lætum pecus, et cellaria plena Nil igitur metuo.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

XIX, 7: “Venerunt nuptiae Agni et uxor eius praeparavit se.”

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

Fugientes igitur memoratus Tuinfredus et uxor eius et familia a facie persequentis, sese in locis tucioribus receperunt, ne generali calumpnie inuoluerentur.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

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