Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Word of the Day

uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\
adjective:

Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.

It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive shopper she has always been.
-- Angela Huth

Flagler seems to have been an uxorious, domestic man, who liked the comfort and companionship of a wife at his side.
-- Michael Browning

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