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- noun Plural form of
epicene .
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Examples
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These epicenes are as curious and exceptional in character as in external conformation.
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Whatever their genius might be, it almost made me sick -- it almost made me kick, to see the humorous and masculine Barty prostrate in admiration before these inspired epicenes, these gifted epileptoids, these anæmic little self-satisfied nincompoops, whose proper place, it seemed to me, was either Earlswood, or Colney Hatch, or
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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These epicenes are as curious and exceptional in character as in external conformation.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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It may be reasonably doubted if arrested development of the female reproductive system, producing a class of agenes, [16] not epicenes, will yield a better result of intellectual and moral power in the nineteenth century, than the analogous class of
Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Edward Hammond Clarke 1848
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Reminder of the epicenes of the African slave trade
WN.com - Articles related to U.S. sees food security as next big Africa push 2010
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Paradoxically, only soprano Emma Kirby strives to save something of Bach's native masculine vigor, but the combined efforts of the English epicenes proves too much even for her.
Taipei Times 2008
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Paradoxically, only soprano Emma Kirby strives to save something of Bach's native masculine vigor, but the combined efforts of the English epicenes proves too much even for her.
Taipei Times 2008
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Paradoxically, only soprano Emma Kirby strives to save something of Bach's native masculine vigor, but the combined efforts of the English epicenes proves too much even for her.
Taipei Times 2008
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