invirile
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/
Adjective
invirile (comparative more invirile, superlative most invirile)
- Deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.
- 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:
- 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, […]
References
- “invirile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.