Wifely
['waɪfli]
Definition
(a.) Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.
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Examples
- I may say that without love--wifely duty--where was I? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do you remember how, before we were married, I warned you that I had not good wifely qualities? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her voice was as clear as a bell, and full of wifely solicitude. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In this solemnly pledged union of her life, duty would present itself in some new form of inspiration and give a new meaning to wifely love. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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