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Sapphism|ˈsæfɪz(ə)m|
[f. name of Sappho (see Sapphic), who was accused of this vice: see -ism.]
Homosexual relations between women.
1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict. 1901Lancet 1 June 1548/1 As yet in this country the novelist..has not arrived at the treatment in romance of excessive morphiomania, or Sapphism, or vaginismus, all of which diseases will be found in French novels.
So ˈSapphist, ‘one addicted to sapphism’ (Webster's Suppl. 1902); saˈpphistically adv., in the manner of a Sapphist.
1913R. Brooke Let. 13 Dec. (1968) 547 A woman..who loved Lulu sapphistically. 1923V. Woolf Diary 19 Feb. (1978) II. 235 She is a pronounced Sapphist, & may..have an eye on me. 1925[see pæderast]. 1975‘M. Orr’ Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1977) xviii. 247 Winifred knew herself to be..a Sapphist on the prowl for a desirable jeune fille. |