virility

The reason, Foster argues, is that impotence implies a lack of virility, a lack of manliness.

Predictably then, if oddly too, this man's very existence had become a test of Indian virility.

It is the cornea—the last redoubt of virility and independence.

None of this feared Republican virility is any more real than the charge that the GOP manufactured the Turfers.

It cannot be too strongly condemned, for its introduction robs the reeds of their characteristic virility of tone.

It remained in his a fraction of a second longer than he had expected, and gripped him with a virility that was surprising.

And on his own merits the virility and good looks of him drew her admiration.

Their application is not always clear, but they are nearly always indicative of the virility which characterized the old printers.

As he sat there musing, his virility and iron figure gave him rather the appearance of the soldier than the emperor.