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The noun is called Epicene when, with the same termination and the same article, it indicates both male and female --
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Yesterday I dined in company with Stael, the "Epicene," [1] whose politics are sadly changed.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Epicene ‘they’ was more frequent in the OED quotations and the Chaucer text than in the AW.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009
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Such was her case; but as regards the Epicene he, seeing her alarm, lifted the door off its hinge pins,50 and entering found the
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Epicene princes, whose taper limbs and swelling busts are well worth the scrutiny of the opera-glass -- dragons vomiting at once red flames and witticisms about the fountains in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Heywood's _Wise Woman of Hogsdon_ (1604), Jonson's _Epicene_ (1609) and
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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_Epicene_ or the _Silent Woman_ was specially liked by the next generation because of its regularity, and of the skill with which the various humours are all wrought into the main plot.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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His three next plays, _Volpone_, _Epicene_, and _The Alchemist_, could not have been written by any one but himself, and, had they not been written, would have left a gap in English which nothing from any other literature could supply.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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The same philosopher who fathers his dulness on me, asserts that the modern vice or fastness ( 'Trotting on the Epicene Border,' he has it) is bred by apparently harmless practices of this description.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The same philosopher who fathers his dulness on me, asserts that the modern vice or fastness ( 'Trotting on the Epicene Border,' he has it) is bred by apparently harmless practices of this description.
Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868
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