muliebrity
nounEtymology
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).
- derived from *mel-✻
- derived from muliēbris
- derived from muliebritās
Definitions
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; […]
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.
The state of puberty in a female.
The neighborhood
- neighbormuliebral
- neighbormuliebrile
- neighbormulier
- neighbormulierose
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for muliebrity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA