anile
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The object of Zoe's anile affection was a capable man, and justified his rather humiliating elevation by good service to the empire.
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As to their religion, it had the reputation popularly, according to various Fathers, of being an anile superstition, the discovery of old women, a joke, a madness, an infatuation, an absurdity, a fanaticism.
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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.
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The ladies 246 would not think so,” he added, mournfully wagging his head with anile melancholy.
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Here the long i is retained, and in disyllables the penultima is lengthened, as in 'anile', 'senile', 'virile'.
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