Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state of being a woman.
  2. n. Femininity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Womanhood; the state of puberty in a woman.
  2. n. Womanishness; womanliness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state or quality of being a woman, the features of woman's nature.
  2. n. The coordinate term to virility, in an analogy with the coordinate terms of femininity and masculinity.
  3. n. Femininity, specifically the feminine form of an adult woman.
  4. n. Attainment of womanhood; state of puberty in a female
  5. n. A state of womanhood, in contrast to maidenhood.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.
  2. n. Effeminancy; softness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women
  2. n. the state of being an adult woman

Etymologies

  1. Latin muliebritās, state of womanhood (in contrast with maidenhood), from muliebris, womanly, from mulier, woman.

Examples

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “One came in all the glory of her ripened beauty, bare-necked, bare-armed, full dressed by nature in that splendid animal equipment which in its day had captivated the eyes of all the lusty lovers of complete muliebrity.”

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  • sionnach womanly nature or properties Nov 3, 2007

‘muliebrity’ has been looked up 1380 times, loved by 8 people, added to 39 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 17.