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Exhibiting behavior or mannerisms considered unmasculine
“A lot of rather etiolated, epicene, middle-class, male intellectuals have discovered a new authenticity when they come to identify themselves as football fans.”
Having characteristics of both genders, or none at all
“He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.”
Having a cowardly or weak character
Not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender
Excessively prim and proper
A person of indeterminate gender
“Morande threatened to publish a scurrilous account of d'Eon's life as an epicene.”
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