genderal

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genderal

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

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  1. uncommon Related to grammatical gender (division of nouns etc. into categories like masculine, feminine, etc.) 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 a person's state of being a man, woman, etc. 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 frequentl

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@misc{genderal_2026,
  title = {genderal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/genderal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}