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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPICENE (from the Gr. i rixocvos,
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common)  , a
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term in
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Greek and Latin
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grammar denoting nouns which, possessing but one gender, are used to describe animals of either
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sex . In
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English grammar there are no true
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epicene nouns, but the term is some-times used instead of
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common gender .

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