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wifelike

[ wahyf-lahyk ]

adjective



adverb

  1. in a manner befitting a wife.
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Other Words From

  • un·wifelike adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wifelike1

First recorded in 1590–1600; wife + -like
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Example Sentences

Then he became ill and she began taking over his finances — a bit too wifelike for him.

She, with “wifelike government,” kept the money, and heartened me to write, and write I did but with awful sufferings and difficulty, and much destruction of sleep.

I am delicate about the figures, for Mrs O'D. occasionally reads these sketches, and might feel a wifelike antipathy to a record of this nature.

And then, that next afternoon,—that very next afternoon, after she had written all her impulsive, wifelike, loving promises to Jack, what should come but a note from Ray to be delivered privately to her.

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.

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