muliebrity

• There was a little toss in their movement, full of muliebrity. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• So much woman in it, -- muliebrity, as well as femineity —  Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes
• The earliest known appearance of only as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" girl-friend is in 1892 and girl next door, is a "neologism" (derived from the Latin) meant as a teenaged female or young meant to provide a female counterpart of woman with a kind of wholesome appeal, "virility", but used very loosely, sometimes dates only to 1961Protected Property to mean merely "womanhood", sometimes Intellectual Rights Copyright PeopleNology "femininity", and sometimes even as a Nollijy University Research PeopleNology collective term for women. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• What has he done Quackery and idolatry are all but immortal Question everything Racing horses are essentially gambling implements Rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories Rather meet three of the scowlers than one of the smilers Rather longer than usual dressing that morning Regained my freedom with a sigh Religious mental disturbances Remarkably intelligent audience Remarks like so many postage-stamps Returning thanks after a dinner of many courses Ribbon which has strangled so many false pretensions Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable Saint may be a sinner that never got down to "hard pan Saturation-point of each mind differs from that of every other Saying one thing about it and believing another Scientific certainty has no spring in it Scientific knowledge Second story projecting See if the ripe fruit were better or worse Self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces Self-love is a cup without any bottom Self-made men Self-unconsciousness of genius Sense of SMELL Sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living Sentimentality," which is sentiment overdone Settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver Several false premises Shake the same bough again She who nips off the end of a brittle courtesy She always laughs and cries in the right places Shut out, not all light, but all the light they do not want Shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy SIN has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all Single combats between dead authors and living housemaids Singular inability to weigh the value of testimony Six persons engaged in every dialogue between two Slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition Small potatoes always get to the bottom Smiling at present follies So long as a woman can talk, there is nothing she cannot bear So much woman in it,--muliebrity, as well as femineity So much must be pardoned to humanity Society is a strong solution of books Society of Mutual Admiration Sold his sensibilities Some people that think everything pitiable is so funny Some people think that truth and gold are always to be washed for Somebody had been calling him an old man Something she is ashamed of, or ought to be Something better than flowers; it is a seed-capsule Somewhere,--somewhere,--love is in store for them Stages of life Struggle with the ever-rising mists of delusion Stupidity often saves a man from going mad Style is the man Sudden conviction that I had seen it somewhere Takes very little to spoil everything for writer, talker, lover Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought Talk without words is half their conversation Talkers who have what may be called jerky minds Talking with a dull friend affords great relief Talking is like playing on the harp Talking is one of the fine arts Talking shapes our thoughts for us Tears that we weep inwardly with unchanging features Temptation of money and fame is too great for young people Tepid and unstimulating expression of enthusiasm Terrible smile Thanklessness of critical honesty That great procession of the UNLOVED The house is quite as much the body we live in The schoolmistress had tried life, too The Amen! —  Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes
• "distaff" is an archaic adjec - tive derived from women's conventional role as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" is a "neologism" (derived from the Latin) meant to provide a female counterpart of "virility", but used very loosely, sometimes to mean merely "womanhood", sometimes "femininity", and sometimes even as a collective term for women. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

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