invirile

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/ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/

adjective

Deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.

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Meanings

adjectiveinvirile (comparative more invirile, superlative most invirile)

comparative more invirile · superlative most invirile

  1. Deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.

    Ovid in Pontus, puling for his Rome / Of men invirile and disnatured dames / That poison sucked from the Attic bloom decayed, / Shrank with a shudder from the blue-eyed race / Whose force rough-handed should renew the world, […]

    1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6

Origin

From in- + virile.

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