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What does uxorious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Overly devoted or submissive to one's wife.
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The uxorious protagonist in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage feels controlled by his obsession for his beloved.
When my first wife left me for being too uxorious, I reacted as most Greeks would.
Of them all Hilperik, the King of Neustria, was the most uxorious and effeminate.
These words smack of the uxorious policy recommended to husbands by Poor Richard.
But with the luxurious and uxorious love which does hinder action he had done.
Wealthy and more or less contented, O'Hara settled into a life of uxorious country squiredom, first in Quogue, on Long Island, and then in Princeton.

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