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posted by Twerpette @ 6:45 PM
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This is an eye-opener for me. I have heard or read the word frequently but always used in the sense of being greatly devoted to one's wife (which I suppose corresponds to the "excessively fond" definition), never in the "submissive" context of the second listed definition. Though clearly it must have both meanings and be used both ways. Still, whenever I have read it, it has had a positive connotation - that of an exemplary devoted husband. So I guess that the word's utility as either a compliment or an insult would depend on the context in which it is used.
Without commenting on which definition might have been meant to apply, here is the title of a story that came out in Salon.com in 2003(by Tina Brown)complaining about how boring Washington had become under George W. Bush and, consequently, how devoid of glitz and star power that year's White Houst Correspondant's dinner was.
"Uxorious, prayerful and addicted to early nights"
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