uxorial

The factor that defines a major wife's status of superiority in relation to other wives lies in the husband's esteem for her; confirming a woman's uxorial status may thus be difficult.

Aurora's occupation of "woman's verses," belittled by the impersonally gendered qualification as well as its pairing with "woman's dreams," is represented as irrelevant and extrinsic to the uxorial atmosphere Aurora will create in Romney's home through marriage.

Both scenes also feature uxorial fidelity as a prominent theme, and Odysseus as the explicit (and surprising) subject of immediate concern in Penelope's dream and as the addressee in the Nekyia.

Thomas Aquinas says, against Abelard and Bernard, love cannot increase by addition, but "by being intensified in its subject." (9) As such, "it is a participation of the infinite character which is the Holy Ghost," and "the cause of the increase of charity, namely God, is possessed of infinite power." (10) Furthermore, she baldly confuses affection and eros: how can it be wrong to give her father all her filial affection and her husband all her uxorial eros?

You hail a taxi outside your apartment block, having told your uxorial partner that you will be but two shakes of a camel's tail to go to the bank in el-Korba, withdraw some money and embark on a series of transactions resulting in the possession of a selection of beverages that are stronger than tea, two stick loaves of bread of near-heaven, and nuts tastier than the Brazilian kind.

(32) Filarete's esteem for her seems to have stemmed from his belief that Faustina the Elder was the paragon of uxorial virtue.

Meaning "of or pertaining to wives," The description uxorial strives To be redolent of Sex and comfort and love, But it gives Uncle Herbie bad hives.

While Adrian's servitude merely shifts directions, her connection with Rocky steers her towards procreative, uxorial behavior rather than the sterile, abstinent caretaking of her brother that had prolonged her adolescence until her thirties.