单词 | uranist |
释义 | Uranistn. 1. A person who advocated the literary merits of the Sonnet à Uranie by V. de Voiture (1597–1648) over those of a sonnet on Job by I. de Benserade (1613–91), in a dispute which divided the French literary world in the mid 17th cent. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. I. 579 How great an honour was it, to be the Head of a Party against Voiture..and to have..the faction of the Jobelins disputing the ground with the..Uranists! 1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. II. 134 Those who gave the preference to that [sonnet] of Benserade, were styl'd the Jobists, and their antagonists, the Uranists. 1812 A. Chalmers Gen. Biogr. Dict. (new ed.) IV. 468 The prince of Conti declared himself a Jobist, and the duchess de Longueville, an Uranist. 1877 G. Masson Outl. French Lit. iv. 29 The Jobelins and the Uranists were as earnest in their feuds as the Gluckists and Piccinists of a hundred years ago. 1983 M. Bochet in C. Duquoc et al. Job & Silence of God iv. 74 The celebrated seventeenth-century quarrel between the Uranists and the Jobelins. 2. A (male) homosexual. Cf. Uranian n.2 Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person urning1883 invert1892 homosexual1894 Uranist1895 homosexualist1898 Uranian1908 intersexualc1910 homoerotic1915 homo1923 one of those1927 freak1941 homophile1945 gay1953 consenting adult1957 minty1957 lesbigays1992 1895 Physician & Surgeon 17 550 It is known that some uranists have had wives and had children by them. 1986 J. Money Capri xi. 255 Norman Douglas..philosophises to Fersen about hermaphrodites, Uranists. 2004 D. Lodge Author, Author ii. ii. 65 It had not occurred to him in Paris that Zhukovski might be a Uranist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1710 |
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