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UK
/vɪɹˈɪlɪti/
]
[ US /vɝˈɪɫəti/ ]
[ US /vɝˈɪɫəti/ ]
NOUN
- the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation
- the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male
How To Use virility In A Sentence
- It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
- But first it needs to regain its virility.
- Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
- This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ... Who's the Gay Simpson?
- Testosterone is often linked with virility but treatment with the hormone can suppress the production of sperm by reducing levels of hormones called gonadotropins.
- More surprising, at least to those who presumed her well-aired feminist principles to have been a continual corrective to Blair's masonic/lubricious tendencies, Cherie Blair appears to have been equally impressed by displays of New Labour virility, twitting her husband on the contrast with his own probable timidity: "John's just a man. What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?
- His virility was a potent force that left her weak. Heart Of Stone
- it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility
- This may hobble the bull in the future. But first it needs to regain its virility.
- As Sarkar says, the incitement to violence is suffused with anxiety about virility, and the treatment of women seems to enact a fantasy of sexual sadism far darker than mere revenge.