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  • noun A homosexual.

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From uranism.

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Examples

  • Aletrino of Amsterdam pushes the view that inversion is a non-morbid abnormality to an undue extreme by asserting that "the uranist is a normal variety of the species _Homo sapiens_" ( "Uranisme et Dégénérescence," _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, Aug. - Sept., 1908); inversion may be regarded as (in the correct sense of the word here adopted) a pathological abnormality, but not as an anthropological human variety comparable to the Negro or the Mongolian man.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

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  • a homosexual

    Nabokov,Lolita p. 18

    November 12, 2007

  • a homosexual

    Nabokov,Lolita p. 18

    July 17, 2009