Definition of "uxorial" [ux•o•ri•al]

• Of a wife; regarded as befitting a wife. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "After all, even Livia could not claim uxorial and maternal ties to three Augusti."
• "Only a sense of uxorial duty to his position stopped Hadrian from sending Sabina into exile.34"
• "We got to see vintage big Bill again this summer as he saw his uxorial partner in political brazenness lose to a rookie."