muliebrity
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˌmjuːlɪˈɛbɹɪti/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˌmjuliˈɛbɹəti/, /-ɾi/
Noun

muliebrity

  1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the feature#Noun|features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.
    Synonyms: femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness
    Antonyms: masculinity, manhood, manliness, mannishness, virility
    • 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, transl., “How Rondibilis Declareth Cuckoldry to be Naturally One of the Appendances of Marriage”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], OCLC 503530 ↗; republished in volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, […], [1948], OCLC 977536467 ↗, book the third, page 460 ↗:
      [I]n the devising, hammering, forging and composing of the Woman, she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful Consortship, and sociable Delectation of the Man, than to the Perfection and Accomplishment of the individual Womanishness, or Muliebrity.
    • 1888, Bret Harte, “[A Phyllis of the Sierras] chapter V”, in A Phyllis of the Sierras and A Drift from Redwood Camp, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], OCLC 1130880 ↗, page 152 ↗:
      [T]his tall, handsome, gentlemanly-looking woman, who, however, in spite of her broad shoulders and narrow hips possessed a refined muliebrity superior to mere womanliness of outline, {{...}
    • 1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Margaret in London”, in The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head […], OCLC 963600821 ↗, book the second (Margaret), § 2, page 207 ↗:
      She had not married, I suppose because her standards were high, and men are cowards and with an instinctive appetite for muliebrity.
  2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
  3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female#Noun|female.
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