wifelike

[wahyf-lahyk]

adjective

1. wifely.

adverb

1. in a manner befitting a wife.

Other Word Forms

• unwifelike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wifelike¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; wife + -like

Example Sentences

Then he became ill and she began taking over his finances — a bit too wifelike for him.

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She, with “wifelike government,” kept the money, and heartened me to write, and write I did but with awful sufferings and difficulty, and much destruction of sleep.

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I am delicate about the figures, for Mrs O'D. occasionally reads these sketches, and might feel a wifelike antipathy to a record of this nature.

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And then, that next afternoon,—that very next afternoon, after she had written all her impulsive, wifelike, loving promises to Jack, what should come but a note from Ray to be delivered privately to her.

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Sir Lucius and Lady Aphrodite Grafton were indeed on the best possible terms, and the whole county admired his conjugal attentions and her wifelike affections.

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