"wifely" meaning in English

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        "t": "feminine, female"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wyfly, wifly, from Old English wīflīc (“womanly, wifely”), from Proto-Germanic *wībalīkaz (“wifely”), equivalent to wife + -ly. Cognate with Scots wifely (“womanly, wifely”), Dutch wijflijk, wijfelijk, German weiblich (“feminine, female”).",
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    {
      "form": "wifelier",
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      "form": "wifeliest",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "word": "unwifely"
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          "word": "wifeliness"
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          "word": "wifely duties"
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          "ref": "1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 2, Chapter 38:",
          "text": "Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.",
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        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "'Behold!' and she took his hand and placed it upon her shapely head, and then bent herself slowly down till one knee for an instant touched the ground - 'Behold! in token of submission do I bow me to my lord! Behold!' and she kissed him on the lips, 'in token of my wifely love do I kiss my lord.'",
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Unmarried”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "A woman who does not nose into the domestic arrangements of the place she is going to occupy gives the first hint, for a woman indifferent to the heating, furnishing, plumbing, cooking utensils of her home is not wifely.",
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I endeavoured to soothe. “You can't blame yourself.” “Yes, I can.” “It isn't your fault.” “I invited Wilbert Cream here.” “Merely from a wifely desire to do [your husband] a bit of good.”",
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          "word": "wively"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "befitting a wife",
          "word": "mogliesco"
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      "ipa": "/ˈwaɪfli/"
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  "word": "wifely"
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      "word": "wifeliness"
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      "word": "wifely duties"
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
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          "text": "I endeavoured to soothe. “You can't blame yourself.” “Yes, I can.” “It isn't your fault.” “I invited Wilbert Cream here.” “Merely from a wifely desire to do [your husband] a bit of good.”",
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      "sense": "befitting a wife",
      "word": "mogliesco"
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