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Old-womanish quality
Answer for the clue "Old-womanish quality ", 7 letters:
anility
Word definitions for anility in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being anile.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anility \A*nil"i*ty\, n. [L. anilitas. See Anile .] The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. ``Marks of anility.'' --Sterne.
Usage examples of anility.
This colossus of cunning and corruption had employed all his powers of mind, and all the resources of mimicry, to affect the surprise and anility of an innocent man, while giving the lawyers the spectacle of his sufferings.