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nonvirile

adj

Etymology

From non- + virile.

  1. derived from viril
  2. prefixed as nonvirile — “non + virile”

Definitions

  1. Not virile.

    • Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.
    • Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual […]
    • As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.

  2. Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine…

    Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter nouns, i.e. for all groups that do not include men or personal masculine nouns.

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