urning

English

Etymology

From German Urning, from Latin Uranus; see Uranian for more.

Noun

urning (plural urnings)

  1. (obsolete) A homosexual person, especially a man.
    • 1886, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, F. A. Davis Co. (1894), page 255:
      The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves.

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