invirile

English

Etymology

in- +‎ virile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/

Adjective

invirile (comparative more invirile, superlative most invirile)

1. Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.
   • 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:

     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

References

• “invirile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.