"uxoriousness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From uxorious + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|uxorious|ness}} uxorious + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} uxoriousness (uncountable)
  1. Overt devotion or submissiveness to one's wife. Tags: uncountable
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          "text": "He is the embodiment of uxoriousness, frequently turning the conversation back to Cath […]",
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          "text": "Yet men go into matrimony as if to the gallows. Even my own husband - a model of uxoriousness, so far - turned a whiter shade of pale the night before our wedding. \"I'm having a funny feeling,\" he confided, lying rigid on our bed like a felled tree. \"I think it's called 'fight or flight'.\"",
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