wifeward

wifeward

English

Etymology

wife +‎ -ward

Adverb

wifeward (not comparable)

1. Toward a wife or wives.
   • 1905, Bram Stoker, The Man Chapter I

     his thoughts went womanward and wifeward

   • 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Mare's Nest

     Then Belial Machiavelli saw
     ⁠Her error and, I trust, his own,
     Wired to the minion of the Law,
     ⁠And travelled wifeward—not alone:
     For Lilly—thirteen-two and bay—
     Came in a horse-box all the way.