Meanings of wifely submission in English

Kano, from the tail of his eye, marked with approval these tokens of wifely submission.

Of course she had not asked questions, she said with a pleasant little assumption of wifely submission.

But now, for the first time, she asked herself if he were not presuming upon her wifely submission.

Her search in her husband's pockets was only what might have been expected from the average woman, but the wifely submission was special.

The greater part of the Ménagier's book is concerned, however, not with the theoretical niceties of wifely submission, but with his creature comforts.