Crossword clues for virility
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virility \Vi*ril"i*ty\, n. [L. virilitas: cf. F. virilit['e].]
The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood;
manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion.
``Virility of visage.''
--Holland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"period of manhood," 1580s, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virilitatem (nominative virilitas) "manhood," from virilis (see virile). Meaning "power of procreation, capacity for sexua intercourse" is from 1590s; sense of "manly strength" is recorded from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being virile. 2 manly character. 3 The ability to procreate.
WordNet
n. the property of being capable of copulation and procreation
the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male [syn: manfulness, manliness]
Wikipedia
Virility (from the Latin virilitas, manhood or virility, derived from Latin vir, man) refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. It is applicable to women and not to negative characteristics. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED1) says virile is "marked by strength or force". Virility is commonly associated with vigour, health, sturdiness, and constitution, especially in the fathering of children. In this last sense, virility is to men as fertility is to women. OED1 also notes that virile has become obsolete in referring to a "nubile" young woman, or "a maid that is Marriageable or ripe for a Husband, or Virill".
Historically, masculine attributes such as beard growth have been seen as signs of virility and leadership (for example in ancient Egypt and Greece).
Usage examples of "virility".
Despite his tremendous virility, Malemute Kid was possessed of a softer, womanly element, which could win the confidence of a snarling wolf-dog or draw confessions from the most wintry heart.
Everywhere in Champa, she said, a bull elephant of sixty years was taken to represent the very peak of strength, virility and masculine powers.
With this, the intellectual if slightly pedomorphic forehead, the refinement of the nose, somewhat too small, and the middle of the face, somewhat too concave, and a look of mental power, virility, nobility, all slightly spoiled.
A fitness buff, he would often drop to the floor of the Caltech dining hall or other public areas and do one-armed pushups to demonstrate his virility to anyone who seemed inclined to doubt it.
The mares should be proven fertile, preferably already in foal to Libyan stallions, and the stallions should be no more than four years of age and of proven virility.
Compared to it the gratifications of pretense and denial, the insistence on subverting one's blood and virility in the name of a false manhood conditioned by a demented, antibiological society, are pallid indeed.
It was worth it—all the time she spent in cosseting him, caring for his health, embroidering him fine cloaks and shirts, and even now and then, discreetly, finding a young woman for his bed and giving him a dose of one of her herb medicines which would allow him something like normal virility.
It was worth it-all the time she spent in cosseting him, caring for his health, embroidering him fine cloaks and shirts, and even now and then, discreetly, finding a young woman for his bed and giving him a dose of one of her herb medicines which would allow him something like normal virility.
Starting from a 1/4-inch ancestral ape penis similar to the penis of a modern gorilla or orangutan, the human penis increased in length by a runaway process, conveying an advantage to its owner as an increasingly conspicuous signal of virility, until its length became limited by counterselection as difficulties fitting into a woman's vagina became imminent.
Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject’s displayable features a sullen and congested something that pertains to what he has to conceal.
At the feet of the Western Ghats, she searched for the herbs of virility, mucuna pruritus and the root of feronia elephantum.
But I do know that he gave an impression of far greater spruceness, haleness, clean-cutness, virility, call it what you will, than almost any dark-haired man you see about you, once past twenty-five.
Not I, locked in my virility: no friend to Therem Harth, or any other of his race.
Not I, locked in my virility: no friend to Therein Harth, or any other of his race.
And, using those same rare herbs and spices and extracts, I have compounded a limited supply of that powerful invigorating fluid, to offer to a few of my fellow men the veritable stag and stud virility it can give them.