单词 | transexion |
释义 | transexionn. rare. Originally: †change from one sex to another (obsolete). In later use: the action or fact of imbuing a member of one sex with characteristics associated with the other.In quot. 1952 with allusion to Browne's use in the work cited in quot. 1646. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > reassignment of sex or gender transexion1646 sex reversal1910 sex change1922 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvii. 147 Not only Mankinde, but many other Animals, may suffer this transexion, we will not deny, or hold it at all impossible. View more context for this quotation 1682 R. Saunders Several Epist. iv. 63 in View of Soul Reason..is able to espy not only a Transexion, or Transmutation of Sex, but a Transmutation, or Transition of one reputed species into another. 1952 Amer. Imago 9 247 Transexion occurs constantly. Hence a woman is made into male and a man is made into female where these sexualities are needed in the individual's libidinal organization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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