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Meanings of epicene in English
Linguistics term; word with identical female and male forms.
Related terms
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
Synonyms
Examples for "sissy"
Examples for "sissy"
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Hold still, you big sissy... Look, Z, let me be honest here.
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When he says he wants a singe, they call him a sissy.
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Getting a restraining order-hell, that's kind of a sissy thing to do.
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And I would have never stopped being such a sissy, would I?
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But he's kind of sissy for a serial killer, don't you think?
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The more masculine the women become, the more effeminate become the men.
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Though fair, he was not effeminate; his countenance was regular and expressive.
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With the epitaph of this hero compare that of the effeminate Sardanapalus-
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So-so; an effeminate humourist,-saysthe most absurd things, and fancies them wise.
5
Weak and effeminate monarchs occupied the throne of Baber and Shah Jehan.
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Not too handsome but compelling, a real man, not a simpering cissy.
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The moment the young men got up Cissy and Elsie forgot Mildred.
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Buried Cissy right next to the grave where his baby already was.
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Then in just one short speech Cissy Beale showed him her heart.
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Always she would remember it, spiced with the queer words Cissy used.
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Since Paul can't eliminate the Fed outright, he's trying to emasculate it.
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Gender questions emasculate, if her publishers will excuse the terms, criticism.
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But, it is said, that the fine arts soften and emasculate the mind.
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Where it should be nurturing great talent it prefers instead to emasculate it.
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Do not emasculate, as that would be a waste of force.
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Don't quote that sissified Francis Chester to me.
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The physical training was difficult, though according to our former Ranger it was a total sissified cakewalk.
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Don't worry, you're not going to see any sissified four-cylinder Italian stallions out there that can barely crack 150mph.
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There was no ranting; indeed, the rhetoric was so mild as to be almost sissified by the standards of an earlier day.
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I had seen enough on TV to know that some boys didn't think that a sissified thing like homework was a cool thing to do.
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I consider it sissyish.
Usage of epicene in English
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He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
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As for the epicene coteries of Bloomsbury, they filled him with loathing.
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But this epicene state of enjoyment was not long to last.
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Just who are those who enjoy the epicene on the stage?
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Fancy a slender-hipped orchidaceous person, an epicene youth with Botticellian hair and a Nietzsche walk.
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Tucci, flexing an epicene machismo, endears as a magician whose specialty is in making his act go wrong.
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Another epicene creature flies by her.
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Lentulus is slender, fair-haired, epicene.
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There was a lack of grit and stamina about him-somethingsoft, both in manner and appearance; something dreamy, ambiguous, almost epicene.
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This seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily."
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From behind the headstone came the now ambiguous and epicene figure of the Wilbur twin, contorted to hold together the back of his waist.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The margins of Epicene in the 1640 book.
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He called them neuters, epicenes, bloodless, sexless creatures.
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[Vide the play of "Epicene, or the Silent Woman," in which Mrs.
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"Sexless, epicene, undeveloped neuters!" he went on bitterly.
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He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
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