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adjective 
  1. Overly devoted or submissive to one's wife.
    • 1991, The Advertiser, 12 Oct.,
    • :She was the cross her cuckolded, incompatible husband had to bear, and he was"beneath those fantastic uniforms"the pathetic, human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time.
Etymology: uxorius "of or pertaining to a wife" from uxor "wife"


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