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  2. Bæddel and bædling - Wikipedia

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    bæddel translating the Latin Anareporesis, i. homo utriusque generis in the Antwerp-London Glossaries The canons about bædlings in the Old English Canons of Theodore. Bæddel and bædling are Old English [a] terms referring to some category of gender, sex, or sexuality outside the norm of Anglo-Saxon England, although their precise meaning and scope are debated by scholars.

  3. Ordeal of the bitter water - Wikipedia

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    The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has ...

  4. Latin obscenity - Wikipedia

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    Ānus (not to be confused with ănus 'an old woman') corresponds to the English derivative "anus". The word is metaphorical and originally meant "ring". Its anatomical sense drove out its other meanings, and for this reason the diminutive ānulus became the usual Latin name for a ring or circle. [63] [64] The word is common in medical writings.

  5. Leviticus 18 - Wikipedia

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    English וְאֶ֨ת־ ‎ wə-'eṯ-And DOM: זָכָ֔ר ‎ zā-ḵār, a male לֹ֥א ‎ lō: not תִשְׁכַּ֖ב ‎ ṯīš-kaḇ: you shall lie down מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י ‎ mīš-kə-ḇē: beds of/coitally [a] אִשָּׁ֑ה ‎ 'īš-šā; a woman תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה ‎ tō-'ē-ḇā: an abomination הִֽוא׃ ‎ hī' it

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  7. How 'Women's Empowerment' Lost Its Meaning - AOL

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    Now, with Women's History Month in full swing, examples of women’s empowerment are seemingly everywhere, appearing regularly in stories on politics, business, and popular culture.

  8. Kapu (Hawaiian culture) - Wikipedia

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    Taro (body form of the god Kāne) was kapu for women to cook and prepare. Some large fish were also kapu for women to eat. Isabella Abbott, a leading ethnobotanist of Hawaii, theorizes that because of the limited "noa" (free) diet for Hawaiian women, seaweeds were relied upon more heavily for Hawaiians than other Pacific islands. [3]

  9. As more groups adopt gender-inclusive language, some claim ...

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    “The notion that you can’t say the wordwomen’ strikes me as the notion that you can’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” Gillian Branstetter, a communications strategist at the ACLU, said ...