husbandly

From Middle English housbondly, equivalent to husband +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌzbəndli/

husbandly (comparative more husbandly, superlative most husbandly)

1. 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.

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 [...].