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supervirility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English virility English supervirility From super- + virility.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being extremely virile or manly
    • Much of the timbre of a voice whose richness in an earlier era was synonymous with an image of supervirility remains intact. 2009 January 15, Stephen Holden, “A Crooner Returns, With a Swing in His Heart”, in New York Times:

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