Genderal
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Related to gender.; Related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.) uncommon
"We find a grammatical gender of a kind in Lᴇk·oñḗnᴇñ as in some of the other Salish dialects. […] but it must be clearly understood that no genderal distinction is made in the pronoun proper, only in the locative or demonstrative particles attached to it, […]"
- 2 Related to gender.; Related to a person's state of being a man, woman, etc. uncommon
"Hysteria is ordinarily, but no without exception, a disease pertaining to the female organization. The maladive condition seems rather to belong to the sexual element, the aphrodisiac infusion, than to the genderal peculiarity; and although it is an epicene affection, it is by far the most frequently found among the females of the race."
Example
More examples"We find a grammatical gender of a kind in Lᴇk·oñḗnᴇñ as in some of the other Salish dialects. […] but it must be clearly understood that no genderal distinction is made in the pronoun proper, only in the locative or demonstrative particles attached to it, […]"
Etymology
From gender + -al, likely modeled on sexual, especially in later usage.
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