gender-specifically

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English

Adverb

gender-specifically (comparative more gender-specifically, superlative most gender-specifically)

  1. In a gender-specific manner.
    • 1993 October 6, John Turner, “A theory about the ‘big boys’ behind Christie”, in The Courier-News, page A-11:
      Christine Todd Whitman is not “one of the boys,” not just gender-specifically speaking, but philosophically speaking. Mrs. Whitman may be misguided, but she is sincere. The boys are out for themselves.
    • 2006 November 25, Curtis Phillips, “Who’s on your top ten list?”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 10, number 47, page 12:
      Now, we weren’t talking about imports who only wear Oil Barons colours for a couple of seasons and then move on, but kids, or more gender-specifically, males who went through the minor hockey system and have roots planted firmly in the local tarsands.
    • 2013 August 7, Andrea Darr, “at home with Ali Bronska”, in Ink, volume 6, number 20, page 18:
      Despite the shoes, sunglasses and jewelry openly displayed, Ali claims her taste isn’t overly feminine, calling her home the “not-too-girly” house. “If I get one girly thing, then I get one masculine thing,” she says. But even if she lived alone, Ali wouldn’t decorate too gender-specifically. “My whole concept is traditional with a modern, clean twist,” she says.
    • 2017, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15, T&T Clark, published 2022, →ISBN, page 59:
      The first case opens with the phrase אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי, which may be understood either inclusively (everyone who) or gender-specifically (every man who).

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