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In English grammar there are no true epicene nouns, but the term is sometimes used instead of common gender.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 6VARIOUSThe latest development of the impulses which animate the epicene sex has taken its expression in after-dinner oratory.
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD AND OTHER SOCIAL ESSAYS, VOL. II (OF 2)ELIZA LYNN LINTONThis seemed to him an odd way to look at things, and he boggled over a phrase about an "epicene lily."
HUNTINGTOWERJOHN BUCHANWhat's the meaning of this; and what, may I ask, is the intention of this—this epicene attire?
STALKY & CO.RUDYARD KIPLINGHe was a great contrast to the epicene bird-like creature who had lorded it over the civic fortunes of Valladolid.
THE AMERICAN EGYPTCHANNING ARNOLDBut he was rather too much given to dally about voluptuous subjects with a sort of chuckling epicene triviality.
ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1780-1860GEORGE SAINTSBURYBut a liberal-minded public grew more and more in favor of epicene colleges.
HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, VOLUME III (OF III)VARIOUSHis beautiful epicene face, his boyish figure, his unearthly sensitiveness, haunt us as we read his lines.
VISIONS AND REVISIONSJOHN COWPER POWYSTo this abnormal condition the learned have applied the adjectives epicene, androgynous, hermaphrodite, arrenothele.
THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTDANIEL G. BRINTONSentiment is the ultima ratio feminarum, and of men whose natures are of the epicene gender.
TRACKS OF A ROLLING STONEHENRY J. COKEWORDS RELATED TO EPICENE
- aside
- bated
- bland
- bleached
- blurred
- breathless
- deadened
- deep
- delicate
- dim
- distant
- dull
- dusty
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- faded
- faltering
- far-off
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- hazy
- hoarse
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- ill-defined
- imperceptible
- inaudible
- indistinct
- lenient
- light
- low
- low-pitched
- mild
- moderate
- muffled
- murmuring
- muted
- muttering
- obscure
- out of earshot
- padded
- pale
- piano
- quiet
- remote
- shadowy
- slight
- smooth
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- soothing
- stifled
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- whispered
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- chicken
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- etiolated
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- gentle
- helpless
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- ineffectual
- inefficient
- infirm
- insubstantial
- insufficient
- lame
- languid
- low
- out of gas
- paltry
- poor
- powerless
- puny
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- sickly
- slight
- strengthless
- tame
- thin
- unconvincing
- vitiated
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- weakened
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- wimpy
- woozy
- zero
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