muliebrities

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.
   • 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.1592?, attributed to Thomas Kyd, The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda. […], Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature G2, verso; republished as The Tragedie of Soliman and...

   Synonyms:

   femaleness, femineity, womanishness, womanliness, womanness

   Antonyms:

   masculinity, manhood, manliness, mannishness, virility

2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
   • [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...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...
3. The state of puberty in a female.