anile
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of anile
1645–55; < Latin anīlis pertaining to an old woman, equivalent to an ( us ) old woman + -īlis -ile
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A half anile flickered across the queen's face.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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 Charles William Chadwick Oman
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
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
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
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