uxor
Americannoun
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Then he struck for his domus et placens uxor at as rapid a rate as his little dumpy legs could carry him.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various
"He'll quote that line of Horace," I said, "about a placens uxor, but it won't be true."
From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham
Verr. ii. 1; whereas uxor and conjux, the wife, in opp. to the husband; uxor, merely in relation to the man who has married her, in opp. to maritus, Tac.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
In the window of the North chancel, was the following, in Gothic characters. p. 22Orate pro anima, Wiliemi Attwood de Horsham et Aliciæ uxor ejus, quæ istam fenestram fieri fecit; A.D.
From The History and Antiquities of Horsham by Howard Dudley
If capacious be consistent with leaky, then the "uxor secreti capax" must have been rather an unsafe confidante.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
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