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

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