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Definition of Eonism
1. adoption of the dress and mannerisms of the opposite sex [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eonism
Literary usage of Eonism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genius of Universal Emancipation by Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison (1831)
"Here is "equity" —here is "justice"—here is the " republi- eonism" of our DESPOTIC
criminal Code! BURNING то DEATH!!! If the advocates of.slavery can shew ..."
2. Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies a Necessity: Being an Introduction by Lorenzo Dow McCabe (1882)
"^eonism holds that to affirm the ending of punishment is to fall short of Scripture,
and to affirm its endlessness is to go beyond Scripture. ..."
3. The Evolution of Christianity by Charles Gill (1883)
"Tertullian was obviously, in his own generation, a Gnostic heretic, who effected
an imaginative fusion between ^eonism and the Gospel. ..."
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