Citations:hermaphroditically

English citations of hermaphroditically

Adverb: "in a hermaphroditic manner"

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• 1878 — Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28-29:

  For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.

• 1979 — Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press (1979), page 86:

  In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.

• 1988 — Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, Beacon Press (1988), →ISBN, page 11:

  Therefore, this study uses the term berdache solely for male (or, in rare cases, hermaphroditically ambiguous) individuals who take on a social role that is more or less feminine.

• 2004 — Vanessa Smith, "Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach", in Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean (eds. Bernhard Klein & Gesa Mackenthun), Routledge (2004), →ISBN, page 40:

  This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.

• 2005 — Richard Daly, Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs, UBC Press (2005), →ISBN, pages 64-65:

  But, except under unusually discordant circumstances, such wishes are not realized (or are realized only for short durations), especially since humans are not islands unto themselves, reproducing hermaphroditically.

• 2009 — Ruth Padel, "Why Hermaphrodite Is Second-Best", in Darwin: A Life in Poems, Borzoi Books (2009), →ISBN, page 57:

  […] He starts a new page. 'Inherited traits,

  patristic feather and bone

  would never be pooled, species would never form to share

  the social instinct, if they created offspring

  hermaphroditically, alone.' […]

• 2012 — Jarold E. Hogle, "The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection", in A New Companion to the Gothic (ed. David Punter), Blackwell Publishing (2012), →ISBN, page 508:

  In Suzuki's Ringu especially, "Sadako" (the original Samara) can channel vibrations across different electronic media because she mixes in herself, hermaphroditically, a deep inseparability of the human sexes, […]

• 2012 — Vaughan Rapatahana, "Introduction: English Language as Thief", in English Language as Hydra: Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures (eds. Vaughan Rapatahana & Pauline Bunce), Multilingual Matters (2012), →ISBN, page 3:

  The English language not only hermaphroditically propagates itself, it is also capable of backbiting itself.

• 2012 — Hsu-Ming Teo, Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels, University of Texas Press (2012), →ISBN, page 74:

  Traveling on a train through the desert induces an experience of ecstatic sensation in Domini that positions her hermaphroditically as both the penetrated female swooning from love and sex, and the male penetrator invoking a classic trope of virgin territory: […]

• 2012 — Kate Thomas, Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters, Oxford University Press (2012), →ISBN, page 74:

  Trollope's capacity for multiplicity and cross-gendered production that James attributes to postal work turns, in this trope, to sexual reproduction that is diverse not only in its productions, but also in its mode of production: Trollope can, hermaphroditically, both spread his seed and be pregnant and give birth.