spousely

From spouse +‎ -ly.

spousely (comparative more spousely, superlative most spousely)

1. Befitting a spouse.
   • 2009, Marc Rangel, Memories of Mosquitia, page 64:

     When the time came, the husband would build a new house to which the old wife would retire with her children, while the new wife assumed the spousely role of homemaker.

   • 1990, Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, Joan Bechtold, Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, page 135:

     If the decretalists were concerned that prospective spouses be able to carry out their moral obligations, they were no less interested in preserving spousely rights after the conjugal knot was tied.

• husbandly
• wifely

• spousal
• spousally