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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
uxorious /ʌkˈsɔːrɪəs/
adjective showing great or excessive fondness for one's wife.
– derivatives
uxoriously adverb,
uxoriousness noun.
– origin C16: from L. uxoriosus, from uxor ‘wife’.



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