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homosexualist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English homosexual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English homosexualist From homosexual + -ist.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, derogatory, humorous, qualifier:otherwise archaic) Alternative form of homosexual.
   alt of homosexual
   • They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag. 1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:
   • […] roughly speaking, a homosexualist is born and not made. 1949, George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort:
   • Six homosexualists (males?) thus far examined yielded from anatomically perfect testes an ovarian reaction in four instances and in the other two subjects (bisexualists), an ovario-testicular reaction (ovarian by measurement predominating). 1918, Albert Abrams, Spondylotherapy:
   • […] and how the homosexualist cause is rooted squarely in the secular/pagan view of the cosmos. 2002, F. Earle Fox, David W. Virtue, Homosexuality: Good and Right in the Eyes of God?:
   • Fundamentally, unconsciously, I believe he's a homosexualist. 2003, Linda Alcoff, Linda Martín Alcoff, Eduardo Mendieta, Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality:

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