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anile

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈæn.aɪl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeilnStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of or like a feeble old woman

Word origin

From Latin anīlis, from anus (“old woman”).

Used in a sentence

  • Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude ; mumbled its credos ; cursed its heretics — and died.
  • Steerpike derived as much pleasure in watching these anile and pitiful creatures, dressed in their purple finery, as they crawled beneath the carpet as he got from anything.

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