cuckoldry

It is a behavior in which males attempt to prevent cuckoldry.

These laws were enacted in fear of cuckoldry and thus sexual jealousy.

This motif runs through the play, often in references to horns, a symbol of cuckoldry.

The answer, referring to cuckoldry, came in an anagram: "Horns."

"God, is there any man safe from cuckoldry?"

Probably meant the end of cuckoldry too.

"Cuckoldry was not spoken about at home because my mother was cuckolded, night and day," she says.

Poor old Rory apparently bore his cuckoldry with old-fashioned complaisance.

Yellow is the color of cuckoldry, and her superstitious parents kept it out of their home's palette.

Under strict orders not to consummate the marriage, Robert must now add cuckoldry to his long list of reasons for hating himself.

The island of light hurt him bitterly, and he wished he had never held witness to it, or to his father's cuckoldry.

This form of cuckoldry is taken a step further when females lay their eggs in the nests of other individuals.

Further evidence also suggests that occasionally filial cannibalism might be the unfortunate by-product of cuckoldry in fish.

In some animal cultures, competition may lead to instances of egg thievery, nest takeovers, and cuckoldry.

As it happens - and not for the first time - nearly every other new English play also deals with cuckoldry in one subplot or other.

Don John plays upon Claudio's pride and fear of cuckoldry, which leads to the disastrous first wedding scene.

The Augustan stage retreated from the Restoration's focus on cuckoldry, marriage for fortune, and a life of leisure.

Perils of cuckoldry.

Alongside cuckoldry comes faithfulness.

The basis behind this argument is that jealousy was beneficial in our ancestor's time when cuckoldry was more common (Buss et al., 1992).

A yearling participates in extra-pair mating and cuckoldry as much as or even more than older males.

In bed with her now he fears she will resist his touch, but he endures his cuckoldry in silence.

Singing about an unfaithful lover, he turned cuckoldry into comedy, mocking his rival as an imbecile and making rude gestures.

They may also recall the history of cuckoldry in the Cornish family, whose name further highlights the males' tendency to provide legitimacy for babies not their own.

Marriage, Cuckoldry, &c.