"muliebrity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌmjuːlɪˈɛbɹɪti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌmjuliˈɛbɹəti/ [General-American], /-ɾi/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-muliebrity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: muliebrities [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muliēbris + -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muliēbris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mel-}}, {{der|en|LL.|muliebritās||womanhood; womanliness}} Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), {{der|en|la|muliēbris||feminine, womanly}} Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”), {{m|la|-tās|pos=suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being}} -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being), {{m|la|muliēbris}} muliēbris, {{suffix|en||ity}} + -ity, {{cog|frm|muliebrité}} Middle French muliebrité, {{m|la|mulier||woman; wife}} mulier (“woman; wife”), {{m|la|mollior||softer; milder; weaker}} mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), {{glossary|comparative}} comparative, {{m|la|mollis||soft; mild, tender; weak}} mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*mel-||soft; tender; weak}} Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”), {{m|la|-brīs|pos=noun suffix denoting a person}} -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} muliebrity (countable and uncountable, plural muliebrities)
  1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood. Tags: countable, literary, uncountable Synonyms: femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness Translations (state or quality of being a woman — see also femininity, womanhood): muliebrité (Middle French), feminidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-muliebrity-en-noun-ARVA2v1G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 4 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 75 4 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 72 9 19 Disambiguation of 'state or quality of being a woman — see also femininity, womanhood': 73 14 14
  2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood. Tags: countable, literary, uncountable
    Sense id: en-muliebrity-en-noun-iKUedc~u
  3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physiology, Female
    Sense id: en-muliebrity-en-noun-wAIHcZrW Disambiguation of Female: 30 20 50 Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: muliebritie [obsolete] Related terms: muliebral, muliebrile, mulier, mulierose

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          "text": "The Ladies of Rhodes hearing that you have loſt, / A capitoll part of your Lady ware, / Haue made their petition to Cupid, / To plague you aboue all other, / As one preiuditiall to their muliebritie.",
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          "text": "The second of the ravishing voices I have heard was, as I have said, that of another German woman. […] it had so much woman in it,—muliebrity, as well as femineity; […]",
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          "text": "Civilisation has achieved a very elaborate woman, but the elaboration is unimportant from the point of view of science. It is decorative; the structure endures; the heart of modern woman is the heart of her savage ancestress dressed and adorned and furnished. This permanence of muliebrity serves to indicate the requirements of natural law. Woman may not depart from it to any considerable extent without impairing her position and nullifying her functions.",
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          "text": "Yet a nation is said to become effeminate […] when the attributes which distinguish the female are acquired by the male population—when the customs and habits which are proper to the women are assumed by the men. As both principles are necessary, may not one infer that the qualities generated by both principles are necessary to a nation,—that in proportion as the muliebrity of the one sex declines, the virility of the other also lessens, in an endeavour to adjust the moral machine?",
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          "ref": "1791, [Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani], “Of Impotence”, in Charles Hamilton, transl., The Hedaya, or Guide; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: […], volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Bensley, →OCLC, pages 354–356",
          "text": "[page 354] If a huſband be Inneen, [impotent,] it is requiſite that the Kâzee appoint the term of one year from the period of litigation, within which if the accuſed have carnal connexion with his wife it is well; but if not, the Kâzee muſt pronounce a ſeparation, provided ſuch be the deſire of the wife, […] [pages 355–356] Where ſhe was married as a virgin, ſhe is to be examined by ſome of her own ſex, and if they declare her to be ſtill a virgin, the term of a year is to be appointed, as above, becauſe the huſband's falſehood is then evident; but if they declare her muliebrity [footnote: Meaning womanhood, as opposed to virginity.], the Kâzee is in that caſe to require the huſband to make oath, which if he do, her right to ſeparation is defeated; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1858 July, [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.], “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume II, number IX, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 241; republished as chapter IX, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858, →OCLC, page 251",
          "text": "The second of the ravishing voices I have heard was, as I have said, that of another German woman. […] it had so much woman in it,—muliebrity, as well as femineity; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904 September, H. B. Marriott-Watson [i.e., H[enry] B[rereton] Marriott Watson], “The American Woman: An Analysis”, in James Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, volume LVI, number CCCXXXI, London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., printers […], →OCLC, page 435",
          "text": "Civilisation has achieved a very elaborate woman, but the elaboration is unimportant from the point of view of science. It is decorative; the structure endures; the heart of modern woman is the heart of her savage ancestress dressed and adorned and furnished. This permanence of muliebrity serves to indicate the requirements of natural law. Woman may not depart from it to any considerable extent without impairing her position and nullifying her functions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, [Beckles Willson], “The Effemination of England”, in England: By an Overseas Englishman, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head Ltd. […], →OCLC, pages 181–182",
          "text": "Yet a nation is said to become effeminate […] when the attributes which distinguish the female are acquired by the male population—when the customs and habits which are proper to the women are assumed by the men. As both principles are necessary, may not one infer that the qualities generated by both principles are necessary to a nation,—that in proportion as the muliebrity of the one sex declines, the virility of the other also lessens, in an endeavour to adjust the moral machine?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, A[braham] V[an] H[eyningen] Hartendorp, editor, Philippine Magazine, Manila: A. V. H. Hartendorp, →OCLC, page 509, column 1",
          "text": "Again, there has grown up among our little people a feeling of delicacy in regard to dealing with certain relatives of the other sex and with all other such muliebrities as are within marriageable age. Thus if a Pygmy man is tripping along the trail and happens to descry one of such women coming his way, sexual politeness requires him either to turn tail and retrace his steps or to make a detour […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "features",
          "feature#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "nature",
          "nature"
        ],
        [
          "femininity",
          "femininity"
        ],
        [
          "womanhood",
          "womanhood"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "femaleness"
        },
        {
          "word": "femineity"
        },
        {
          "word": "womanishness"
        },
        {
          "word": "womanliness"
        },
        {
          "word": "womanness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "literary",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English literary terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, [Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani], “Of Impotence”, in Charles Hamilton, transl., The Hedaya, or Guide; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: […], volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Bensley, →OCLC, pages 354–356",
          "text": "[page 354] If a huſband be Inneen, [impotent,] it is requiſite that the Kâzee appoint the term of one year from the period of litigation, within which if the accuſed have carnal connexion with his wife it is well; but if not, the Kâzee muſt pronounce a ſeparation, provided ſuch be the deſire of the wife, […] [pages 355–356] Where ſhe was married as a virgin, ſhe is to be examined by ſome of her own ſex, and if they declare her to be ſtill a virgin, the term of a year is to be appointed, as above, becauſe the huſband's falſehood is then evident; but if they declare her muliebrity [footnote: Meaning womanhood, as opposed to virginity.], the Kâzee is in that caſe to require the huſband to make oath, which if he do, her right to ſeparation is defeated; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 spring, Julie A. Haurykiewicz, “From Mules to Muliebrity: Speech and Silence in Their Eyes Were Watching God”, in Southern Literary Journal, volume 29, number 2, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 45",
          "text": "Janie's story of personal growth may be charted as one that travels from mules to muliebrity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attainment",
          "attainment"
        ],
        [
          "maidenhood",
          "maidenhood"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "literary",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Physiology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state of puberty in a female."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ],
        [
          "puberty",
          "puberty"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physiology) The state of puberty in a female."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "physiology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmjuːlɪˈɛbɹɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmjuliˈɛbɹəti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ɾi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "muliebritie"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "frm",
      "lang": "Middle French",
      "sense": "state or quality of being a woman — see also femininity, womanhood",
      "word": "muliebrité"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being a woman — see also femininity, womanhood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "feminidad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "muliebrity"
}

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