anile
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- anility noun
Etymology
Origin of anile
1645–55; < Latin anīlis pertaining to an old woman, equivalent to an ( us ) old woman + -īlis -ile
Example Sentences
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A half anile flickered across the queen's face.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Our Alabama contemporary is but an anile echo of the New York Tribune, a faint adumbration of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
Such a relief must have come to many readers of Cowper, who would put down his religion as rank fanaticism, and his satire as anile declamation.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
The object of Zoe's anile affection was a capable man, and justified his rather humiliating elevation by good service to the empire.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
He is evidently childish, and breaks now and then into an anile laugh at the thought, no doubt, of some dead old pot-house jest.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
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