Antedating of "Psychosexual"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Jan 9 02:52:20 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:54:36PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> psychosexual (OED 1897)
>
> 1895 _Amer. Naturalist_ 29: 819 (JSTOR)  Every woman who has been at all
> prominent in advancing the cause of equal rights in its entirety, has
> either given evidences of masculo-feminity (viraginity), or has shown,
> consclusively, that she was the victim of psycho-sexual aberrancy.

We now have a few 1894 quotations for this.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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