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Grammar : Noun
Spell : meyl
Phonetic Transcription : meɪl



Definition of maleness

Origin :
  • 1660s, from male (adj.) + -ness.
  • As in virility : noun masculinity
Example sentences :
  • His manhood, or rather his maleness, rose powerfully in him, in a sort of mastery.
  • Extract from : « Aaron's Rod » by D. H. Lawrence
  • Maleness did not of itself prevent either long hours or dirty premises.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of English Liberalism » by Walter Lyon Blease
  • Because of their humanness has come all the noble growth of civilization, in spite of their maleness.
  • Extract from : « Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World » by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Sex—that is to say, maleness and femaleness—is present from the moment of birth, and in every act or deed of every child.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • Biologists now generally prefer to say that a fertilized egg is "predisposed" to maleness or femaleness, instead of "determined."
  • Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
  • If the total dose of maleness exceeds the total dose of femaleness, the sex will be male, and vice versa.
  • Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
  • Goldschmidt watched the crosses which produced seven different grades of maleness in his females.
  • Extract from : « Taboo and Genetics » by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
  • Against man himself and the Maleness that is his by natural right, many are filled with hottest distrust and aversion.
  • Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
  • We will suppose that in dioica femaleness is dominant to maleness, and that the female is heterozygous for this additional factor.
  • Extract from : « Mendelism » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
  • So far as sex is concerned, he is made of maleness plus maleness; but she is made of femaleness plus maleness.
  • Extract from : « Woman and Womanhood » by C. W. Saleeby

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