Word of the Day: MARITORIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
humorously from Latin maritus (husband) + –orious

EXAMPLE
“…Tis grosse and fulsome: if your husbands pleasure
Be all your object, and you ayme at honour
In living close to him, get you from Court,
You may have him at home; these common put-ofs
For common women serve: “my honour! husband!”
Dames maritorious ne’re were meritorious:
Speak plaine, and say “I doe not like you, sir,
Y’are an ill-favour’d fellow in my eye,”
And I am answer’d
. …”

From: Bussy D’Ambois: a tragedie
By George Chapman, 1607

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