Section 7

Citation: Section 7
Parent Document: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2020-06-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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Sex (seks), sb. Also 6–7 sexe, (6 seex, 7 pl. sexe, 8 poss.
sexe’s). [ad. L. sexus (u-stem), whence also F. sexe (12th c.),
Sp., Pg. sexo, It. sesso. Latin had also a form secus neut. (in-
declinable).]
  1. Either of the two divisions of organic beings distin-
guished as male and female respectively; the males or the
females (of a species, etc., esp. of the human race) viewed
collectively.
     1382 WYCLIF Gen. vi. 19 Of alle thingis hauynge sowle of ony flehs, two thow shalt brynge
into the ark, that maal sex and femaal lyuen with thee. 1532 MORE Confut. Tindale II. 152, I
had as leue he bare them both a bare cheryte, as wyth the frayle feminyne sexe fall to far in
loue. 1559 ALYMER Harborowe E 4 b, Neither of them debarred the heires female .. as though
it had ben .. vnnatural for that sexe to gouern. 1576 GASCOIGNE Philomene xcviii, I speake
against my sex. a 1586 SIDNEY Arcadia II. (1912) 158 The sexe of womankind of all other is
most bound to have regardfull eie to mens judgements. 1600 NASHE Summer’s Last Will F 3
b, A woman they imagine her to be, Because that sexe keepes nothing close they heare. 1615
CROOKE Body of Man 274 If wee respect the .. conformation of both the Sexes, the Male is
sooner perfected .. in the wombe. 1634 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. 19 Both sexe goe naked. 1667
MILTON P. L. IX, 822 To add what wants In Femal Sex. 1671—Samson 774 It was a weakness
In me, but incident to all our sex. 1679 DRYDEN Troilus & Cr. I. ii, A strange dissembling sex
we women are. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 10 ¶ 6 Their Amusements .. are more adapted to the
Sex than to the Species. 1730 SWIFT Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 28 Dec., You have neither the
scrawl nor the spelling of your sex. 1742 GRAY Propertius II. 73 She .. Condemns her fickle
Sexe’s fond Mistake. 1763 G. WILLIAMS in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 265 It would
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