
PRONUNCIATION: [uk-sohr-ee-uhs]
adjective:
Excessively devoted or submissive toward one's wife
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin uxor (wife). The feminine counterpart of this word is maritorious. Earliest documented use: 1598.
USAGE: He is so damn uxorious about his wife.
WORDS YOU MUST KNOW
Opprobrium | Bursiform | Elysian | Mithridatism | Kaffeeklatsch | Hebdomad
Wakerife | Quadrennium | Nugacity | Cogent | Conterminous
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