Nonvirile vs Nonvirility - What's the difference?
nonvirile | nonvirility |
Not virile.
* 1984 : , The Spell of New Mexico , [http://books.google.com/books?id=YxmAmXA-SPQC]
* 1992 : Edward Jayne, Negative poetics? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=tsGEAAAAIAAJ]
* 2004 : Jude Deveraux, Remembrance? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=x0iRpH3M-VEC]
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.
* 1975 : Maria Zagórska Brooks, Polish Reference Grammar ,
As an adjective nonvirile
is not virile.As a noun nonvirility is
the state of being nonvirile.nonvirile
English
Alternative forms
* non-virileAdjective
(-)- Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.
- Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual
- As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.
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- The nonvirile' form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for ' nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.