muliebrity

noun
/ˌmjuːlɪˈɛbɹɪti/UK/ˌmjuliˈɛbɹəti/US

Etymology

From Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muliēbris + -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muliēbris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person).

  1. derived from *mel-
  2. derived from muliēbris
  3. derived from muliebritās

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being a woman

    The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.

    • The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie.
    • The second of the ravishing voices I have heard was, as I have said, that of another German woman. […] it had so much woman in it,—muliebrity, as well as femineity; […]
  2. The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.

    • Janie's story of personal growth may be charted as one that travels from mules to muliebrity.
  3. The state of puberty in a female.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA