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Virile   /vˈɪrəl/   Listen
Virile

adjective
1.
Characterized by energy and vigor.  "A new and virile leadership"
2.
Characteristic of a man.  Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, manly.  "Manly sports"
3.
(of a male) capable of copulation.  Synonym: potent.





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... word "male" was first presented to the Legislature. The movement did not gain much impetus until the Nashville League was organized in the fall of this year and Chattanooga and Morrison soon followed. On Jan. 10-12, 1912, the association with its five virile infant leagues met in Nashville and plans for state-wide organization began. Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott, an eminent writer, was unanimously chosen president. In October, 1913, the State convention met in Morristown and eight leagues answered the ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
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... virile nurture Of the teeming primordial ground, For the splendid gospel of color, The rapt revelations of sound; For the morning-blue above us And the rusted gold of the fern, For the chickadee's call to ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various
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... enjoyed times of direct refreshment from an inward Source of Life, but {xxx} they were, most of them, at the same time, devoted Humanists. They shared with enthusiasm the rediscovery of those treasures which human Reason had produced, and they rose to a more virile confidence in the sphere and capacity of Reason than had prevailed in Christian circles since the days of the early Greek Fathers. They took a variety of roads to their conclusion, but in one way or another they all proclaimed that deep in the central nature of man—an inalienable ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
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... audibly. Then he mechanically began to refill his pipe. He wanted to speak, but there seemed to be nothing adequate to say. Two men, virile, thrilling with the ripe, red blood of perfect manhood, friends, ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
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... his calculating eye still on Garrison, then proceeded with much forensic ability and virile imagination to lay the full beauties ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
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