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Defenders vs Degenders - What's the difference?

defenders | degenders |

As a noun defenders

is plural of defender.

As a verb degenders is

third-person singular of degender.

defenders

English

Noun

(head)

    • degenders

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (degender)

    • degender

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * degener (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To degenerate.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
  • *:And if then those may any worse be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered .

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
  • * 2005 , R. W. Connell, Masculinities (page 232)
    • It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable

    See also

    * ungender

    References

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