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Meanings of wifely in English

Befitting or characteristic of a wife.

Usage of wifely in English
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
6
A wifely tenderness in her eyes that I wanted to feel, too.
The Girls
7
She'll go simply as a matter of wifely duty, and all that.
The Gray Dawn
8
When did two men ever disagree upon the subject of wifely duties?
For the Term of His Natural Life
9
What right had Laura Fairford to preach to her of wifely obligations?
The Custom of the Country
10
Was not her whole life a pretence, an affectation of wifely virtues?
Demos
11
And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
12
I completely fail in my wifely duty to advise him, I see nothing.
The Lady of the Rivers
13
She was looking back at me with a flawless imitation of wifely concern.
Magic terror: seven tales
14
It's a wifely gesture; it is, in his estimation, entirely calculated.
The pretender's crown
15
She hadn't gone there on some kind of wifely fact-finding mission, after all.
Mom over miami
16
Why on earth would I have thought of my wifely motto?
The White Princess
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