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Although the term designating this error came into use only in the sixteenth century, the doctrine itself can be traced in the teaching of the earlier heresies.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

That's "homosocial" -- a term designating the cultural and geopolitical halving and socialization of humankind drawn along lines of sexuality and gender that is based not on reproductive functions alone (as was for millennia assumed by most world traditions), but as well by presumed non-sexual, yet no less compelling, same-sex attractions (familial, platonic, mentorial) cementing the alliances which constrict power and privilege according to a culture's dominant XY (male) or XX (female) chromosome preference.

G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010

That's "homosocial" -- a term designating the cultural and geopolitical halving and socialization of humankind drawn along lines of sexuality and gender that is based not on reproductive functions alone (as was for millennia assumed by most world traditions), but as well by presumed non-sexual, yet no less compelling, same-sex attractions (familial, platonic, mentorial) cementing the alliances which constrict power and privilege according to a culture's dominant XY (male) or XX (female) chromosome preference.

G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010

That's "homosocial" -- a term designating the cultural and geopolitical halving and socialization of humankind drawn along lines of sexuality and gender that is based not on reproductive functions alone (as was for millennia assumed by most world traditions), but as well by presumed non-sexual, yet no less compelling, same-sex attractions (familial, platonic, mentorial) cementing the alliances which constrict power and privilege according to a culture's dominant XY (male) or XX (female) chromosome preference.

G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010

To be sure, neither the etymology nor the early history of a term designating a universal idea can explain the later uses of the term, but it is not without interest for the student of the long and intricate history of beauty to see that the ambivalent use of beauty and goodness, beauty and light or radiance, goes back to the very origin of the concept, and that already in

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

As a term designating a recognized stylistic move - ment, “naturalism” is only used in connection with literature, not with the visual arts.

NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968

Domesticus, a title designating a kind of confidential adviser,

History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius

They drew up a plan for the defence of the province; provided magazines, ammunition and prepares stores for twelve thousand militia; and enrolled a number of minute men, a term designating a select part of the militia, who engaged to appear in arms at a minute's warning.

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

All this time, the titheables of Albemarle, a term designating all the men, with the negroes and Indian women, between sixteen and sixty years of age, amounted only to fourteen hundred; and the exports consisted of a few cattle, a small quantity of Indian corn, and about eight hundred thousand weight of tobacco.

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

Though they vowed to organize demonstrations against Israel's refusal to release Palestinian prisoners and its "Judaization" of Jerusalem and Al-Aksa Mosque, the Gaza leaders also noted that "popular resistance" - a term designating rioting and other non-military methods of confrontation - was not a sufficient alternative to "armed resistance," meaning terrorist attacks.

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