Antedating of "Sexuality"

[Fred Shapiro]

sexuality (OED a1800)

1797 John Walker _Elements of Geography_ (ed. 3) (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  The Linnaean system ... is founded on the sexuality
of plants.

Fred Shapiro


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