virilist, n. (and a.) nonce-wd.
(ˈvɪrɪlɪst)
[f. virile a. + -ist.]
A hearty, excessively ‘manly’ person; one who makes a cult of conventional masculine virtues. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1910 C. E. Montague Hind let Loose viii. 145 To give..to the pedant and virilist their several rights of stark rigidity and of jolly brutishness. 1922 ― Disenchantment v. 69 Your virilist chaplain was apt to overdo..his jolly implied disclaimers. |