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genarian en · NOUN · etymology 1

Back-formation from sexagenarian, septuagenarian, octogenarian, and so on.

An elderly person, especially one over the age of 60.
- At the other end of the spectrum, several genarians had physical fitness AQs down in the 30s! 2008, Elaine Bernstein Partnow, Judith Partnow Hyman, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Your True Age, →ISBN, page 41:
- The only reference I made to his age, was the dedication on his card: To my sexy genarian. 2014, Carolyn Mathews, Squaring Circles, →ISBN:
- Let all the genarians pass in review — The procession will last but a minute or two. 1955, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Sundown; Later and Earlier Selected Poems, page 71:
- His garden is an expansive project for an octogenarian, or any kind of genarian. 1994 September 19, Gerry Goldstein, “Maurice Browning thrives and grows, just like his garden”, in Providence Journal-Bulletin:

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From genus + -arian.

(not-comparable) Concerning rules or principles as opposed to acts.
- Rawls' s theory is genarian (the Method is used to derive rules, principles, which in turn are applied to acts) rather than actarian (the Method applied directly to acts). 1982, J. H. Wellbank, Denis Snook, David T. Mason, John Rawls & His Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, page 187:
- This distinguishes his position from that of rule-utilitarians like Brandt, with whom Hare otherwise largely agrees, and makes Hare an actarian in my sense rather than a genarian. 1979, Peter Schröder, Leonard Nelson Symposium, page 90: