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Meanings of neuter gender in English

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The neutrally determined gender of a kind of word as used by some languages.

Usage of neuter gender in English
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The neuter gender business had got a pretty damaging side-hit.
A Mortal Antipathy
2
The fisherman kissed the ground and answered, 'It is of the neuter gender, neither male nor female.'
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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One is the male transformed into neuter gender; and the other is rampant with the fierceness of his sex.
The Foundations of Personality
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On which account nouns of the neuter gender and many masculine and feminine ones have these three cases alike.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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The neuter gender is absent.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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And I suppose the glad-to-see him coming up the street was of the neuter gender, but it was very interesting.
The Tinder-Box
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As in the old language there was no neuter gender, the gods must always appear either as female or male.
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
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Be patient, milady, the physician at the bed of his patient is of the neuter gender-justas the angels are.
Dr. Dumany's Wife
9
For the word "bread" in the original Greek is of the masculine, and the word "this" is of the neuter gender.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 / Taken from a View of the ...
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"Because 'it' is neuter gender."
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm