degender
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin dēgenerāre.
Alternative forms edit
- degener (obsolete)
Verb edit
degender (third-person singular simple present degenders, present participle degendering, simple past and past participle degendered)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To degenerate.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 184:
- And if then thoſe may any vvorſe be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
degender (third-person singular simple present degenders, present participle degendering, simple past and past participle degendered)
- (transitive) To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
- 2005, R. W. Connell, Masculinities, page 232:
- It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable […]
See also edit
References edit
- “degender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.