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urning noun
- a rare word for (esp a male) homosexual
Word Origin for urning C20: from German, from Urania (Aphrodite); compare uranism Examples from the Web for urning Historical Examples of urning
But ought this excess of nervous erethism to be referred necessarily to the peculiar nature of the Urning?
John Addington Symonds
Ulrichs maintains that the body of an Urning is masculine, his soul feminine, so far as sex is concerned.
John Addington Symonds
Broadly speaking, the male includes two main species: Dioning and Urning, men with normal and men with abnormal instincts.
John Addington Symonds
But such consequences have nothing in themselves to do with the sexual inversion proper to the Urning.
John Addington Symonds
Up to the present time the Urning has not been considered as a sport of nature in her attempt to differentiate the sexes.
John Addington Symonds