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English
Etymology
From Middle English housbondly, equivalent to husband + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adjective
husbandly (comparative more husbandly, superlative most husbandly)
- Characteristic of a husband; proper and fitting for a husband; marital.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 177: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.
2008 May 26, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times: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, published 2013, page 211:As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
- (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 [...].
Translations
Having the characteristics of a husband