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invirile en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/

Etymology

From in- + virile.

Meanings

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:

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