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Masculine   /mˈæskjələn/   Listen
Masculine

adjective
1.
Of grammatical gender.
2.
Associated with men and not with women.
3.
(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable.  "The masculine rhyme of 'annoy, enjoy'"
noun
1.
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male.






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"Masculine" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gowns like orchids and tea-roses and the leaves of magnolias. It sparkled in the red and green and crystal jewels like exotic dew scattered over the exotic human flowers. Very occasionally there was a complacent or irritable masculine utterance, and then it was immediately lost in the ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... Glaucon knows all about dogs; we don't differentiate in the case of males and females; the latter hunt with the pack. If women are similarly to have the same employments as men, they must have the same education in music and gymnastic. We must not mind ribald comments. But should they share masculine employments? Do they differ from men in such a way that they should not? Women bear children, and men beget them; but apart from that the differences are really only in degrees of capacity, not ...
— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various

... under his command were guilty of no excesses.[107] It is well known that this untutored people, the children of the forests, value personal much more highly than mental qualities, but the union of both in their leader was happily calculated to impress their haughty and masculine minds with respect and admiration; and the speech delivered by Tecumseh, after the capture of Detroit, is illustrative of the sentiments with which he had inspired these warlike tribes. "I have heard," observed ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

... Love Letters and were yourself struck by this sharp contrast between the iron determination of the man in public affairs and the softness and sweetness of his domestic life. That is but one case in point of the eternal dualism in masculine nature which a woman can never comprehend, and which always, if it confronts her nakedly, she resents. For a woman is not so. There exists no such gap in her between her heart and brain, between her outer and inner life. And the consequence ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More

... and entered our car at every stopping of the train. Three persons, however, remained, bound, like myself, for the farthest station: a lady neither young nor pretty, smoking cigarettes, with a thin face, a cap on her head, and wearing a semi-masculine outer garment; then her companion, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years, with baggage entirely new and arranged in an orderly manner; then a gentleman who held himself entirely aloof, short ...
— The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy


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