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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astonish you to see the mixture of sexes at this place. 1780 BENTHAM Princ. Legisl. VI. §35
The sensibility of the female sex appears .. to be greater than that of the male. 1814 SCOTT
Ld. of Isles VI. iii, Her sex’s dress regain’d. 1836 THIRLWALL Greece xi. II. 51 Solon also made
regulations for the government of the other sex. 1846 Ecclesiologist Feb. 41 The propriety and
necessity of dividing the sexes during the publick offices of the Church. 1848 THACKERAY Van.
Fair xxv, She was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy. 1865 DICKENS
Mut. Fr. II. i, It was a school for both sexes. 1886 MABEL COLLINS Prettiest Woman ii, Zadwiga
had not yet given any serious attention to the other sex.
b. collect. followed by plural verb. rare.
1768 GOLDSM. Good. n. Man IV. (Globe) 632/2 Our sex are like poor tradesmen. 1839 MALCOM
Trav. (1840) 40/I Neither sex tattoo any part of their bodies.
c. The fair(er), gentle(r), soft(er), weak(er) sex; the devout
sex; the second sex; † the woman sex: the female sex, women.
The † better, sterner sex: the male sex, men.
[1583 STUBBES Anat. Abus. E vij b, Ye magnificency & liberalitie of that gentle sex. 1613
PURCHAS Pilgrimage (1614) 38 Strong Sampson and wise Solomon are witnesses, that the
strong men are slaine by this weaker sexe.]
1641 BROME Jovial Crew III. (1652) H 4, I am bound by a strong vow to kisse all of the
woman sex I meet this morning. 1648 J. BEAUMONT Psyche XIV. I, The softer sex, attending
Him And his still-growing woes. 1665 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. (1677) 22 Whiles the better sex
seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin. 1665 BOYLE Oc-
cas. Refl. v. ix. 176 Persons of the fairer Sex. a 1700 EVELYN Diary 12 Nov. an. 1644, The
Pillar .. at which the devout sex are always rubbing their chaplets. 1701 STANHOPE St. Aug.
Medit. I. xxxv. (1704) 82, I may .. not suffer my self to be outdone by the weaker Sex. 1732
[see FAIR a. I b]. 1753 HOGARTH Anal. Beauty x. 65 An elegant degree of plumpness peculiar
to the skin of the softer sex. 1820 BYRON Juan IV. cviii, Benign Ceruleans of the second sex!
Who advertise new poems by your looks. 1838 Murray’s Hand-bk. N. Germ. 430 It is much
frequented by the fair sex. 1894 C. D. TYLER in Geog. Jrnl. III. 479 They are beardless, and
usually wear a shock of unkempt hair, which is somewhat finer in the gentler sex.
¶d. Used occas. with extended notion. The third sex: eu-
nuchs. Also sarcastically (see quot. 1873).
1820 BYRON Juan IV. lxxxvi, From all the Pope makes yearly, ‘twould perplex To find three
perfect pipes of the third sex. Ibid. V. xxvi, A black old neutral personage Of the third sex
stept up. [1873 LD. HOUGHTON Monogr. 280 Sydney Smith .. often spoke with much bitterness
of the growing belief in three Sexes of Humanity—Men, Women, and Clergymen.]
e. The sex: the female sex. [F. le sexe.] Now rare.
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