muliebrity
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
muliebrity
- (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.
- (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
- (physiology) The state of puberty in a female#Noun|female.
- Spanish: feminidad
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