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Definition of Homophile

1. Adjective. Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires.

2. Noun. Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex.

Definition of Homophile

1. Adjective. (dated) Homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; (non-gloss definition used to emphasize love over sex). ¹

2. Adjective. (chiefly historical) Of or pertaining to the “homophile movement”, a gay activist movement that used this term in English. ¹

3. Noun. (dated) A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; (non-gloss definition used to emphasize love over sex). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Homophile

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Homophile

homooctameric homooctamers homooligomer homoousian homoousians homopaternal homopentamer homopentameric homopentamers homophase

homophene homophenes homophenylalanine homophenylalanyl homophil homophile(a) homophiles homophilic homophilous homophily

homophobes homophobiaphobia homophobias homophobic homophobically homophone homophones

Literary usage of Homophile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"As a rule the mother of a homophile is not a "bleeder" herself, but is the daughter of one. The daughters of a hémophile, though healthy and free from any ..."

2. Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay by Michael Bochenek, A. Widney Brown (2001)
"... contemporary subject headings such as "lesbian" and "gay" rather than relying exclusively on outdated terminology such as "homosexual" or "homophile. ..."

3. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"In Pederasty and Pedagogy, Percy encapsulates this: Despite this quite firm distinction in attitude among the Greeks, homophile investigators, ..."

4. Cry of the Phoenix by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"Or to the $15 million federal sex study to be interpreted by a homophile who approved of pedophilia. Or how about the $500000 used by the National Research ..."

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