Meanwhile the fact that despite his name GEORGEalways an object of the gravest suspicionI accept his masculinity without question is my tribute both to the balance of his style and to the admirable drawing of his hero.

" Joe had no wish to compare masculinity with Jamie.

Virile implies maturity and robust masculinity; it is also used of the power to procreate.

The nose, still with an upward tilt in it, had lost its masculinity; the hard bones of the uncle and the grandfather had disappeared.

It pleased him to imagine that, when he was young, he had possessed the same vigor, the same masculinity, the same capacity for persistent labor.