urning en · NOUN
Etymology
From German Urning, from Latin Uranus; see Uranian for more.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A homosexual person, especially a man.
My aim in life will be to create tolerance among mankind and especially to vindicate the decent, spiritual Urning
1940, Bob Mizer, diary entry quoted in Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019), page 48The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves.
1886, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, F. A. Davis Co, published 1894, page 255:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| urnings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |