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What is the word for a overly compliant or complementary husband to his wife? I have seen it before but cannot recall
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That is one word but there is another. I also heard of overly fawning over ones own wife as the definition. Still looking.
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Is the adjective uxorious?
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and uxoriousness : [n] excessive submissiveness to one's wife edit: some related words meacock - (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man uxorodespotism - wifely tyranny link
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Uxorious is the word thanks>!
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uxorodespotism Hey, I kinda like the sound of that!
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