Word Meanings - INVIRILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate. Lowell.

MANHOOD
1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. 2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.
DEFICIENT
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
EFFEMINATE
1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon.
EFFEMINATELY
1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes. 2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. "Effeminately vanquished." Milton.
EFFEMINATENESS
The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller.
GENTLEMANHOOD
The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
INDEFICIENT
Not deficient; full. Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.
WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
UNMANHOOD
Absence or lack of manhood. Chaucer.