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Definition of Invirile
1. a. Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.
Definition of Invirile
1. Adjective. Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Invirile
1. not virile [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invirile
Literary usage of Invirile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"... and invirile, but as he records no dissections or other examinations designed
to show this we are not under obligation to accept the mere statement. ..."
2. The Writings of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"... drop Rebukes these veins that leap with kindred thrill, After long exile, to
the mother-tongue. Ovid in Pontus, puling for his Eome Of men invirile and ..."
3. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"... and invirile, but as he records no dissections or other examinations designed
to show this we are not under obligation to accept the mere statement. ..."
4. The Writings of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"... drop Rebukes these veins that leap with kindred thrill, After long exile, to
the mother-tongue. Ovid in Pontus, puling for his Eome Of men invirile and ..."
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