English

Adjective

husbandly ‎(comparative more husbandly, superlative most husbandly)

1. Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
   • 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 2013, p. 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 [...].