urning

British  

/ ˈɜːnɪŋ /

noun

1. a rare word for (esp a male) homosexual

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Etymology

Origin of urning

C20: from German, from _Urania (Aphrodite); compare _uranism

Example Sentences

Urning est vox Germanica ab Ulrichs inventa.

From Project Gutenberg

But ought this excess of nervous erethism to be referred necessarily to the peculiar nature of the Urning?

From Project Gutenberg

But let us now suppose that the Urning has enjoyed the exceptional good-fortune of finding upon his path in life a soul who feels the same as he does, or else that he has been early introduced by some initiated friend into the circles of the Urning-world.

From Project Gutenberg

In consequence of all this, it seems clear that if, as a matter of fact, mental abnormalities and real disturbances of the intellect are commoner with Urnings than in the case of other men, this does not establish an inevitable connection between the mental eccentricity and the Urning's specific temperament, or prove that the latter causes the former.

From Project Gutenberg

Ulrichs' own words ought to be cited upon this fundamental part of his hypothesis, since he does not adopt the opinion that the Urning is a Dioning arrested at a certain point of development; but rather that there is an element of uncertainty attending the simultaneous evolution of physical and psychical factors from the indeterminate ground-stuff.

From Project Gutenberg