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   uxorial
         adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: {wifely},
                  {wifelike}, {uxorial}] [ant: {husbandly}]

English Dictionary: uxorial by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usherless \Ush"er*less\, a.
      Destitute of an usher. --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Uxorial \Ux*o"ri*al\, a. [See {Uxorious}.]
      Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife;
      uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.]
  
               The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of
               reproach or indignation, but of uxorial endearment.
                                                                              --Geddes.
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