uxoriousness
- a word derived from uxorious.
Example Sentences
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Hollywood is an industry that has never thought of wives as irreplaceable, so his uxoriousness will certainly win him some fans.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2022
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Lifeby Jonathan Sperber Typical Marx: Romantic, charismatic, cosmopolitan, and at once able to combine the workers' revolution with protestations of uxoriousness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
Such is his uxoriousness that, as he struggles to remember Louisa Musgrove's frothy name, he frankly wishes that all women were called Sophy.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2012
Seeing them together suggests that the lyrics of sappy love songs can be true -- or perhaps that he is the one candidate this year who could be accused of uxoriousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fussy self-importance of Chauntecleer; the garrulous vulgarity of Pandarus; the senile uxoriousness of January, are all drawn to the life, without one touch of bitterness or exaggeration.
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
