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Significats de uxorial en anglès

Befitting or characteristic of a wife.

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Examples for "wifely"
Examples for "wifely"
1
She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.
Adopting an Abandoned Farm
2
Was that how it went, then, that wifely attachment grew from motherly?
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
3
But all their wives remembered, and turned them out with wifely elbow.
The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
4
Judge Emery laughed noiselessly, and quite without resentment at this wifely characterization.
The Squirrel-Cage
5
American women, he said, had no conception of wifely duties and affection.
The Shuttle
1
Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
2
He shrugs his shoulders, and at that small gesture, wifelike, I am on to him.
The White Queen
3
Wifelike, she desired to worship him, and that he should know that she worshipped him.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Ús de uxorial en anglès
1
Motherly affection, sisterly devotion, uxorial duty, filial piety.
Seven Surrenders
2
Riccabocca, the wiliest and most relentless of men in his maxims, melted into absolute uxorial imbecility at the sight of that mute distress.
"My Novel" — Volume 08
Col·locacions frequents
Uxorial a través del temps