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Wifelike

Wifelike \Wife"like`\, a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. `` Wifelike government.''
--Shak.

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wifelike

a. Resembling a wife.

WordNet
wifelike

adj. of or befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: wifely, uxorial] [ant: husbandly]

Usage examples of "wifelike".

Sir Lucius and Lady Aphrodite Grafton were indeed on the best possible terms, and the whole county admired his conjugal attentions and her wifelike affections.

More goddesslike than wifelike, such assaults As would take in some virtue.

Wifelike, she straightened his now mostly buttonless shirt into some semblance of propriety.