nonvirile

nonvirile
a) Not virile.

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.

b) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.

Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual


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