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uranism

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noun

  1. a rare word for (esp male) homosexuality
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of uranism1

C20: from German Uranismus, from Greek ouranios heavenly, i.e. spiritual; compare Uranian (sense 5)
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Uranism, form of impurity, 2534 c.

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Then, after exploring, for the sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" �in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year�let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort� the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature."

Note 7: We must agree with the spokesman of "Uranism" that some of the most prominent men known have been inverts and perhaps absolute inverts.

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He regarded uranism, or homosexual love, as a congenital abnormality by which a female soul had become united with a male body—anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa—and his theoretical speculations have formed the starting point for many similar speculations.

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