anile
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
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
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 Rhoda Broughton
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 William Cowper Brann
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various
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