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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
uxorial
    adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: wifely,
           wifelike, uxorial] [ant: husbandly]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Uxorial \Ux*o"ri*al\, a. [See Uxorious.]
   Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife;
   uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]

         The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of
         reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment.
                                                  --Geddes.
   [1913 Webster]
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