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[ UK /vɪɹˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ US /vɝˈɪɫəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation
  2. 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.
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