muliebrity

• “The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.”

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• “Paul, I vaticinate that the mansuetude of your response will bring out the best of my muliebrity.”

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• “Apparently muliebrity means "the condition of being a woman", which is absolutely something that needs its own word.”

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• “With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.”

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• “And having thought upon it a hundred and five times, I know not what else to determine therein, save only that in 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.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “There was a little toss in their movement, full of muliebrity.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862

• “Of this fact there can be no possible doubt; and therefore you shall notice, that, if a fast horse trots before two, one of the twain is apt to be a pretty bit of muliebrity, with shapes to her, and eyes flying about in all directions.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860

• “The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

• “Bradley, a little irritated, he knew not why, at the scrutiny of this 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, turned slightly towards Sir Robert.”

  A Phyllis of the Sierras

• “Miss Darley smiled rather faintly; the imagery was not just to her taste: femineity often finds it very hard to accept the fact of muliebrity.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

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