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WORD FOR THE DAY: MULIEBRITY
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | 5/10/17 | Norman Schur

Posted on 05/10/2017 5:15:11 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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muliebrity [myooh lee EB rih tee]

hear it pronounced

noun

Muliebrity is womanhood, the female nature, the characteristics of a woman; more abstractly, effeminancy, softness. The word is, via Late Latin muliebritas, from Latin muliebris (womanly), based on mulier (woman).

Its conterpart is virility, from Latin virilis (male), based on vir (man).


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To: Louis Foxwell

Awww..Thanks Louis!

(((HUGS)))


41 posted on 05/10/2017 10:05:03 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“My plan is to turn a can of worms into a lovely brace of trout.”

We did just that last week. My daughter is a mighty slayer of tiny fish, and it has no effect whatsoever on her muliebrity.


42 posted on 05/10/2017 1:36:45 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

Mine is as well. Our daughters who fish are true mermaids, beauties of the deep.


43 posted on 05/10/2017 2:25:38 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The death of muliebrity:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3551790/posts

Paradoxically, women will suffer more if awards go totally gender-free, since men will dominate the meatier roles.


44 posted on 05/10/2017 4:14:23 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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