Was (wer) ist uxorious - definition
uxorious
[?k's?:r??s]
¦ adjective showing great or excessive fondness for one's wife.
Derivatives
uxoriously adverb
uxoriousness noun
Origin
C16: from L. uxoriosus, from uxor 'wife'.
Uxorious
·adj Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.
uxoriousness
n.
Philogyny, connubial dotage.
Beispiele aus Textkorpus für uxorious
1. Live a uxorious life in a crappy small town and write about a travelling salesman’s loveless marriage?
2. I‘ll miss you.‘ In the same volume, Amis refers to Barnes as ‘uxorious‘, possibly making some veiled suggestion that he was henpecked or perhaps just noticing the enduring bond between Pat and Julian.
3. The same argument was put, in more sophisticated terms, by Ferdinand Mount, who asked, in The Daily Telegraph last weekend, why the Government seemed prepared to promote homosexual marriage when this most uxorious of prime ministers will not lift a finger to promote the hetero variety?