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Meanings of epicene in inglés
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.
Synonyms
Examples for "hermaphrodite"
Examples for "hermaphrodite"
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However, there is a hermaphrodite form, which completely gets over the problem.
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In so doing he brought about the conception of Agdistis, a hermaphrodite.
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It is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite-henceits peculiarly sacred character.
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We have here an example of hermaphrodite flowers which are sexually different.
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He was half ignorant and half learned, like an hermaphrodite of Satan.
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Chile recommended NZ ended medical procedures on intersex people without their consent.
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These relate specifically to the rights of intersex and gender minority communities.
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She did not discover she was intersex until the age of 40.
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I'm a person just like anyone else, who happens to be intersex.
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Many intersex adults say their lives have been scarred by such operations.
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With such an androgyne element the sun was associated by ancient mythologists.
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The effect aged her, made the androgyne clearer in her bones.
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It may turn out to have nothing to do with their androgyne psychology.
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Beside him, a pale and beautiful androgyne looked at his face and smiled.
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But the destruction of this androgyne proved an arduous task.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
Usage of epicene in inglés
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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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Epicene through the time