2008, May 26, Jon Pareles, New CDs, 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.
2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 211:As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.
1707, Ofspring Blackall, The blessedness of the poor in spirit: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 ....