(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
countersmile
countersmile
noun
A smile in response to another person's smile.
culteranismo
culteranismo
noun
(literature) A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.
emasculation
emasculation
noun
(medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
