We are all aware that the Obamas have a wonderful marriage, and his uxoriousness is the talk of all the women's magazines; but is she really influential when it comes to surging in Afghanistan; bombing Iran; and the political haggling over taxes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

I swoon with delight - if only because of "uxoriousness".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lend Me A Tenor] Reference

But again, say for one suffering from uxoriousness, or for an hypochondriac, what remedy should be applied?.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE] Reference

The most fascinating character is a satiric old courtier, Eubulus, who spends the whole play railing against the Hungarian king's uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture – review] Reference

He had not guessed at this kind of happiness, he was even frightened that one day it would be taken from him, and he did not even mind that men laughed at him because of his sudden uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

Though some speeches included words like "geriatrics" and "uxoriousness," the Flesch readability test--designed to measure how difficult a text is to understand--placed them at a fifth-grade reading level.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'd Like Not To Thank The Academy] Reference

The hours which Napoleon spent with her were so many that he laid himself open to the charge of uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference

The movie's centerpiece is a long and wonderfully acted monologue by Winstone that's a paean to uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

He adored her with a quiet, steady flame of affection which was too fine to degenerate into mere uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Readjustment] Reference

He displays an extreme and foolish fondness, and extravagant and servile devotion, which goes by the name of uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of the Suffragette] Reference

And I have rarely seen a more compelling example of uxoriousness than Richard flacking for Kati when one of her books was published.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Towards the end of April he made a like complaint to another old friend, one Dupouy, who accused him of neglecting old friends through uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Stands Accused] Reference

Lest the carpenter should be taxed with too much uxoriousness, it behoves us to ascertain whether the personal attractions of his helpmate would, in any degree, justify the devotion he displayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference

She was the last woman to desire or tolerate public exhibitions of uxoriousness or to measure the depth of a husband's love by the froth on the surface, and she was reared in a school in which effusiveness is not approved.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Many a laugh poor Beatrix had had about Frank's uxoriousness: his mother would have gone to Clotilda when her time was coming, but that the mother-in-law was already in possession, and the negotiations for poor Beatrix's marriage were begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference

I need not inform you that no husband, unless he were anxious to draw down upon himself the ridicule which attaches itself to extreme uxoriousness, would remain linked to his wife's side all the evening at such an entertainment as the one of which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference

There are powerful passages, much poetic grace in the piece; but the four thousand lines of this elaborate polemical poem rather weary us, and a perfervid appeal to the Protestantism and uxoriousness of Britons should have been cast into other moulds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

Perfectly aware that he owed this courtesy more to Joan than to her husband, it is probable that his grim enjoyment was not diminished by the fact; while Joan, for reasons of her own, preferred the constraint which the presence of another visitor put upon Demorest's uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts of North Liberty] Reference

She had ceased, on reflection, to be altogether so vivacious: her stronger second nature had somewhat resumed its empire: still she was fresh, and could at times be roguishly affectionate and she patted him, and petted him, and made much of him; slightly railed at him for his uxoriousness and domestic subjection, and proffered him her fingers to try the taste of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference

However, the jealousy and uxoriousness of the doting husband give the lovers few opportunities; on one occasion, indeed, as Lady Fancy is entertaining Wittmore in the garden they are surprised by Sir Patient, and she is obliged to pass her visitor off under the name of Fainlove as a suitor to her step-daughter, Isabella, in which rôle he is accepted by Sir Patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.] Reference

He laments that he has fallen below himself as an artist, that he has not realized the possibilities of his genius, half accusing, from the better side of his nature, and half excusing, in his uxoriousness, the woman who has had no sympathy with him in the high ideals which, with her support, he might have realized, and thus have placed himself beside Angelo and Rafael.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

A lifetime of amiable uxoriousness, varied with scientific enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

A person of conventional background + conduct with tendency almost to drabness, non-resistance, uxoriousness, bourgeoise-respectable ect ect ect ect. a poet with sense of wonder and color of life expressed in men, women + words; + grand gestures, grand faits accomplis, parades.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life in Letters] Reference

Many a laugh poor Beatrix had had about Frank’s uxoriousness: his mother would have gone to Clotilda when her time was coming, but that the mother-inlaw was already in possession, and the negotiations for poor Beatrix’s marriage were begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Henry Esmond] Reference

Not by uxoriousness to chill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victories of Love] Reference

And molten down in mere uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference

You fancy Argyll an imbecile of uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

He, too, is sentimentalised by his uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference

And accusation of uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference

And molten down in mere uxoriousness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Chivalry] Reference

Words used only once included adrenalized, dehumanization, geriatrics, imbecile, indebted, nut, polygram, uxoriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'd Like Not To Thank The Academy] Reference

Securely entrenched behind his own large prosperity, uxoriousness, paternity, had he not counted his, Iglesias ', blessings to him; counselling amusement, rest, congratulating him on just all that which made for his present distress -- namely, his obscure position, his enforced idleness, his absence of human ties, the general meagreness of his state in life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Horizon] Reference

Cordelia, in the solitude of her own apartment, drew a comparison between her own situation and that of Lady Caroline Harrington; and found all the arguments drawn from hope, patience, resignation, and fortitude, inadequate to repress her tears; oh, how kindly, how gracefully attentive, how exactly the medium between neglect and uxoriousness was Mr. Harrington’s behaviour to his wife! how greatly was her consequence raised in the scale of society, and how striking was the improvement effected on her manners by her union with a man of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Any Thing But What You Expect] Reference