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Lady FRASER: Uxorious from the Latin, meaning you're a good husband or wife.
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Lady FRASER: Uxorious from the Latin, meaning you're a good husband or wife.
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Lady FRASER: Uxorious from the Latin, meaning you're a good husband or wife.
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Lady FRASER: Uxorious from the Latin, meaning you're a good husband or wife.
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Lady FRASER: Uxorious from the Latin, meaning you're a good husband or wife.
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In the mean time I observ'd my old Friend to be very Uxorious, and exceedingly fond of his Children.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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Uxorious-minded men could sidestep the marriage market's elaborate and costly etiquette.
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Uxorious and yet dissolute in his manners, he made no scruple frequently to violate the wives and daughters of his nobility, that rock on which tyranny has so often split.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Uxorious duties evidently served as a shield, gave me a role (that of servitude) that set me apart from another howaga, the Arabic word for "foreigner."
Latest Articles World Affairs 2009
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Uxorious inmate! bird oUcenel Parld thou defile thefe facred groves,
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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