husbandly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌzbəndli/ (UK)

Definition of husbandly

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Characteristic of a husband; proper and fitting for a husband; marital.
    “One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.”
    “He strives for husbandly allure in slow-motion ballads: “Love You Gently” and the role-reversing “Trading Places,” in which he calls for her to be the aggressive one and offers to make breakfast the next morning.”
    “As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.”
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adj

  1. Characteristic of a husband; proper and fitting for a husband; marital.
    “One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.”
    “He strives for husbandly allure in slow-motion ballads: “Love You Gently” and the role-reversing “Trading Places,” in which he calls for her to be the aggressive one and offers to make breakfast the next morning.”
    “As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.”
  2. (obsolete)Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
  3. (obsolete)Frugal; economical.
    “Even he that has the most of all is nevertheless oblig'd to be Frugal and Husbandly, and not to lavish or squander away what he has [...].”

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Etymology

From Middle English housbondly, equivalent to husband + -ly.

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