| 释义 |
wifelike, a. and adv.|ˈwaɪflaɪk|
[f. wife n. + -like.]
A. adj. Resembling, or having the character of, a wife; characteristic of or befitting a wife.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 138 Thy rare qualities,..Thy meeknesse Saint-like, Wife-like Gouernment. 1796Plain Sense (ed. 2) II. 190 With a kind of bitter raillery he treated her wife-like fears. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xlii. V. 37 Her heart swelling with wifelike pride.
B. adv. In the manner of a wife.
1598Chapman Iliad iv. [viii.] 138 Nor canst thou skale our turrets tops nor leade the wiues to Fleete Of valiant men; that wifelike fear'st my aduerse charge to meete. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. ii. 8 She..vndergoes More Goddesse⁓like, then Wife-like; such Assaults As would take in some Vertue. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 808 When she laid, Wifelike, her hand in one of his. |