uxorious

Latin uxorius (“of or pertaining to a wife”) from uxor (“wife”), late 16th c..

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌkˈsɔːɹ.i.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌkˈsɔɹ.i.əs/, /ʌɡˈzɔɹ.i.əs/

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uxorious (comparative more uxorious, superlative most uxorious)

1. Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 437-446

     ... With these in troop

     Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians call'd

     Astarte, Queen of Heav'n, with crescent Horns;

     To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon

     Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,

     In Sion also not unsung, where stood

     Her Temple on th' offensive Mountain, built

     By that uxorious King, whose heart though large,

     Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses, fell

     To Idols foul. ...

   • 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, uxorious human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time.

• doting

• maritorious
• whipped

• uxorial
• uxoricide