invirile
English
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editinvirile (comparative more invirile, superlative most invirile)
- 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
edit- “invirile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.