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virile
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "characteristic of a man; marked by manly force," from Middle French viril (14c.) and directly from Latin virilis "of a man, manly, worthy of a man," from vir "a man, a hero," from PIE *wi-ro- "man, freeman" (cognates: Sanskrit virah , Avestan ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by energy and vigor; "a virile and ever stronger free society"; "a new and virile leadership" characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: male , manful , manlike , manly ] (of a male) able to copulate [syn: potent ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Craig was a younger and more virile version of his father. ▪ The girls were all gazing adoringly at his muscular, virile young body. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Certainly it demonstrates a virile faith, which is an excellent ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor. 2 (context grammar English) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals ...
Usage examples of virile.
In this persuasion certain of the Aztec priests practised complete abscission or entire discerption of the virile parts, and a mutilation of females was not unknown similar to that immemorially a custom in Egypt.
For the first time in years, Simone thought of Aloin Boyer, the handsome, virile husband she had lost to a German howitzer.
Just as the difference between virile and effeminized, and in conventional terms that between homosexual and heterosexual, becomes more and more confused, so does the difference between simple and refined, aristocratic and barbarian.
From this perspective a classically ordered universe can be reimagined in which the European, the effeminized, the homosexual, the refined, and the aristocratic are systematically opposed to the American, the virile, the simplistic, and the barbarous.
He had been shut up for three years for committing the following crime: In the hall of his house there was a fountain, composed of a marble basin and the statue of a naked child, who discharged the water in the same way as the well-known statue of Brussels, that is to say, by his virile member.
They called it koro, and they described its very terrible effect: a sudden and dramatic and irreversible shrinking of the virile organ, a retraction of it up into the body.
Miss Lurida Vincent, gold medallist of her year at the Corinna Institute, was the leader of these advocates of virile womanhood.
Masculine and virile, he was handsome with a dangerous kind of fascination about him because of the ruggedness of his features.
As Atumu-Ra could have no fellow, he stood apart in the first rank, and it was decided that Shu should be his son, whom he had formed out of himself alone, on the first day of creation, by the simple intensity of his own virile energy.
Residence, and recalled the hip-shot stance of the very virile Straif Blackthorn.
It sometimes happens that the virile member is amputated by an animal bite.
In fact the police themselves used to wrap coca leaf around sugar lumps and suck away: they believed it would make them macho and virile.
Marcus had never looked more virile, the roughness of his edges unblunted by any social veneer.
This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection-slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.
No longer passive, the naked brownette clenched her arms and thighs round her virile mature lover-master, and held to him for dear life as he foraged lingeringly in her love-citadel till once more her amorous tides were shatteringly swept up on the beach of bliss.