Crossword clues for wifely
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wifely \Wife"ly\, a. [AS. w[=i]flic.]
Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife. ``Wifely
patience.''
--Chaucer.
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
WordNet
Usage examples of "wifely".
On the borders between maidenly and wifely, she, a thing of flesh like other daughters of earth, had impressed her sceptical lord, inclining to contempt of her and detestation of his bargain, as a flitting hue, ethereal, a transfiguration of earthliness in the core of the earthly furnace.
She had made a rule to be most precise in fulfilling her wifely duties, and rarely went out unless accompanied by her husband or her mother-in-law.
East End on his way to America, she set herself with immediate, wifely devotion to unlearn her useless English in place of what seemed to be the prevailing tongue of the New World.
An ambitious yet kindly man with a taste for the exotic engendered by the fashion of the day, Aman specified to his djinn servant that a woman for his harem must be comely and well learned in wifely crafts and also be of noble blood among her own people, but must not be so beloved that loss of her would greatly grieve her kin.
But when the doctors told him be was dying, the wife started coming in to be with him all the time, sort of tak2o6 ing over her wifely duties, and she yelled at him for letting the girlfriend visit.
It was almost wifely, the way she would not let him overtalk at breakfast and miss the early bus.
She accedes to the subservient wifely role typical of women of her generation.
The bond between the story of Alcestis, who goes down to death to save the life of Admetus, and that of Leonore, who ventures her life to save Florestan, is closer than that of the Orphic myth, for though the alloy only serves to heighten the sheen of Eurydice's virtue, there is yet a grossness in the story of Aristaeus's unlicensed passion which led to her death, that strongly differentiates it from the modern tale of wifely love and devotion.
Having bagged him in London's East End on his way to America, she set herself with immediate, wifely devotion to unlearn her useless English in place of what seemed to be the prevailing tongue of the New World.
The simple, dutiful, wifely kiss that seemed to seal us away from all the loneliness and treacherousness of the outside world.