epicene

He started as a boy player, in Epicene in 1609.

Note that some words, called epicene, may have identical forms for different genders.

The alternative would be that he intended epicene they in agreement with generic man, including women.

This usage is known as epicene they.

She studied herself in the mirror, to see grim features, a body bony, lank, almost epicene.

Unlike their masculine counterparts, feminine words have not generally been reinterpreted as epicene.

Various epicene affixes have also been proposed.

You would think that veneration so exquisite, verging on the epicene, indicates an object of, well, recherché taste.

Blest office of the epicene.

She made her debut in the title role of Jonson's Epicene on 1 June 1664.

Both plays also reveal the influence of Ben Jonson's Epicene (1609).

Epicene is an adjective (sometimes substantive) that indicates lack of gender distinction, often specifically loss of masculinity.

In languages with grammatical gender, the term "epicene" can be used in two distinct situations:

Epicene they has indeterminate gender:

Scholars who see a debt in the play to Ben Jonson's Epicene favor a date c. 1611.

Finally, he hears the click of a lifted receiver and a rich, flutey voice says, "Epicene Wildeblood here."

Early As Seen In Pace (Epicene Sound Systems 2003)

"The Epicene Pronoun: The Word that Failed."

"Do you think," she said, "can find us setting less, ah, epicene and, uh, sybaritic for dear husband who is capable of doing anything but nothing at all?"

It was indeed a fact that his sexual parts resembled those of the One-men rather than the epicene, or perhaps atrophied, organs of the Twos.

Untitled (Cassette, Epicene Sound Systems) - (2007)

A festival of the epicene - tinkly tunes and pallid lyrics in this weak Vivian Elles revue.

In contrast Novial has one symmetric, unbiased system for both nouns and pronouns which marks either male, female, epicene or inanimate.

Just picture it: Leonardo DiCaprio, blond, doe-eyed and smitten, curled in the ape's epicene yet hairy grip.

The riist "manifesto" also adopts the masculine suffix *-iĉo and the occasional epicene use of ge- to avoid any resulting confusion.