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Examples
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I thought it was quite beautiful, except for the androgyn.
An amazingly beautiful ad. Ann Althouse 2008
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I thought it was levels of androgyn during development that determined sex, rather than any genetic inheritance per se?
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I thought it was levels of androgyn during development that determined sex, rather than any genetic inheritance per se?
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She'd probably say worse than that about me, but the only thing she can think of is that since I dress like a boy sometimes, I might be a poppet or an androgyn.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Talking about Severus as both Dumbledore's apprentice and his mirror image as an alchemist, the Gryffindor / Slytherin androgyn that is "slytherin-side-out," is fascinating, even important (if true!), but it lacks the connect-the-dots transparency of Hermione as alchemical mercury or Sirius as the embodiment of the nigredo.
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John, loving the idea of a Slytherin / Gryffindor androgyn being the "Green Lion"
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a story androgyn or hermaphrodite embodying this resolution in some kind of apotheosis, and the revelation of everything hidden.
Hogwarts Professor 2010
hernesheir commented on the word androgyn
US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906: Railroad telegraphers' notation meaning "You must alter".
January 19, 2013