genderal

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Definition of genderal

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (uncommon)Related to gender.
    “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, […]”
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adj

  1. (uncommon)Related to gender.
    “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. (uncommon)Related to gender.
    “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.”
    “When asked might a woman wear pants / That a critical fellow named Kant / Snapped back in reply, / "Attempts to transcend genderal / distinctions to posit a / gynandromorphic category / of clothal relationships / leads to syllogism and / antinomy." / Which of course in Kant cant means she can't.”
    “[E. M. W.] Tillyard's work is of course of his time, but unless one take the terminally relativistic view that as with the blind men and the elephant, there is nothing more permanent in the objects themselves than what a temporal (or perhaps political or sociological or genderal or other) perspective allows one to see, his work cannot be dismissed as just of its time.”

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Etymology

From gender + -al, likely modeled on sexual, especially in later usage.

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