Crossword-Solution: EPICENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epicene | a. & n. | Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. |
| Epicene | a. & n. | Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “EPICENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Having the characteristics of both sexes | 1 answer |
| COMMON gender form of noun | 1 answer |
| Adapted to both sexes. | 1 answer |
| COMMON to both sexes | 1 answer |
| Having characteristics of neither sex | 1 answer |
| In grammar, having but one form for either sex. | 1 answer |
| Lacking discrepancy between genders | 1 answer |
| Not gendered, as a noun | 1 answer |
| Of common gender having only one form for both sexes | 1 answer |
| Of common gender. | 1 answer |
| Of common gender: Gram. | 1 answer |
| Of indeterminate gender | 1 answer |
| Used in both masculine and feminine cases | 1 answer |
| For both sexes | 2 answers |
| For men and women | 2 answers |
| Ben Jonson comedy | 2 answers |
| Unisex | 4 answers |
| ANDROGYNOUS | 5 answers |
| Lacking vigor | 7 answers |
| asexual | 7 answers |
| sexless | 8 answers |
| A FEEBLE OLD WOMAN | 10 answers |
| A PIECE OF GROUND HAVING SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OR MILITARY POTENTIAL | 11 answers |
| unmanly | 19 answers |
| flaccid | 29 answers |
| effeminate | 31 answers |
| Feeble | 79 answers |
| equivocal | 79 answers |
| Weak | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPICENE (5)
What could wickedness desire more than an arrangement by which offences should be always followed by pardon?’ Sentiment is the _ultima ratio feminarum_, and of men whose natures are of the epicene gender.
Along the garden-wall the bees With hairy bellies pass between The staminate and pistilate, Blest office of the epicene.
However persistently the epicene theorists of modern times may deny it, it is nevertheless a truth plainly visible in the whole past history of the sexes that the natural condition of a woman is to find her master in a man.
One merit, however, is certain: if her earliest writings were dangerous, it was because of her wonderful power of idealization, not because she filled her pages with the revolting and epicene sensuality of the new Italian, French, and English schools.
Monk, and three more Lords, are made Commissioners for the Treasury; that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of the Wardrobe; and the two Dukes do haunt the Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene, [Epicene, or the Silent Woman, a Comedy by Ben Jonson.] the other day; that Sir Ant.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1942–2016).