frigidity

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  1. Coldness; want of heat. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1.
  2. Coldness of feeling, manner, or quality; want of ardor, animation, or vivacity in action or manifestation; chilliness; dullness. Having begun loftily in heavens universall Alphabet, he fals downe to that wretched poorenesse and frigidity as to talke of Bridge street in heav'n and the Ostler of heav'n. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus.
  3. Want of natural heat and vigor of body; impotency. Bailey, 1731.

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  • A touch of enervating warmth from the south or a frigidity from the north and the trees feel it through their thick bark coats very quickly. —  My Boyhood
  • Disaster at the Altar Princesses were brought up from birth to be chaste almost to the point of frigidity, thereby ensuring legitimate heirs. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • May you be blest with frigidity, a blessing far removed from my hope. —  Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
  • A very frigid woman, if the frigidity is not due to serious organic causes, may have very healthy children and make an excellent mother. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • But when the frigidity is of such a degree that it amounts to a strong physical aversion to the act, it should be considered a bar to marriage. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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  1. from French frigidité = Provencal frigiditat = Italian frigidità, from Late Latin frigidita (t-) s, cold, from frigidus, cold: see frigid.
 

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