• Husbandly

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈhÊŒzbÉ™ndli/

    Origin

    From husband + -ly.

    Full definition of husbandly

    Adjective

    husbandly

    1. Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
      • 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.
    2. (obsolete) Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
    3. (obsolete) Frugal; economical.
      • 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 ....
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