uxorious🔊

With these in troop / Came Astoreth, whom the Phœnicians call'd / Astarte, Queen of Heav'n, with crescent Horns; / To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon / Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, / In Sion also not unsung, where stood / Her Temple on th' offensive Mountain, built / By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, / Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses, fell / To Idols foul.

In truth, Richard was a fond—almost an uxorious husband.

Mr. Watkins Tottle was a rather uncommon compound of strong uxorious inclinations, and an unparalleled degree of anti-connubial timidity.

The king, who was a most uxorious husband, at first ridiculed the notion, but at length consented, as he did to everything else on which her majesty had set her heart.

People smiled a little when Sir Andrew Ffoulkes' name was mentioned, some called him effeminate, others uxorious, his fond attachment for his pretty little wife was thought to pass the bounds of decorum.

But Daylight was not unduly uxorious. He lived his man's life just as she lived her woman's life.