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ALITO, J., dissenting
Appendix A to opinion of ALITO, J. 

astonish you to see the mixture of sexes at this place. 1780 BENTHAM  Princ. Legisl. VI. §35 

The sensibility of the female sex appears .. to be greater than that of the male. 1814 SCOTT 

Ld. of Isles VI. iii, Her sex’s dress regain’d. 1836 THIRLWALL Greece xi. II. 51 Solon also made 

regulations for the government of the other sex. 1846 Ecclesiologist Feb. 41 The propriety and 

necessity of dividing the sexes during the publick offices of the Church. 1848 THACKERAY Van. 

Fair xxv, She was by no means so far superior to her sex as to be above jealousy. 1865 DICKENS 

Mut. Fr. II. i, It was a school for both sexes. 1886 MABEL COLLINS Prettiest Woman ii, Zadwiga 

had not yet given any serious attention to the other sex. 

b. collect. followed by plural verb. rare. 

1768 GOLDSM. Good. n. Man IV. (Globe) 632/2 Our sex are like poor tradesmen. 1839 MALCOM 

Trav. (1840) 40/I Neither sex tattoo any part of their bodies. 

c. The fair(er), gentle(r), soft(er), weak(er) sex; the devout 
sex; the second sex; † the woman sex: the female sex, women. 
The † better, sterner sex: the male sex, men. 

[1583 STUBBES Anat. Abus. E vij b, Ye magnificency & liberalitie of that gentle sex. 1613 

PURCHAS  Pilgrimage  (1614)  38  Strong  Sampson  and  wise  Solomon  are  witnesses,  that  the 

strong men are slaine by this weaker sexe.]

1641 BROME  Jovial Crew III. (1652) H 4, I am bound by a strong vow to kisse all of the 

woman sex I meet this morning. 1648 J. BEAUMONT Psyche XIV. I, The softer sex, attending 

Him And his still-growing woes. 1665 SIR T. HERBERT  Trav. (1677) 22 Whiles the better sex 

seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin. 1665 BOYLE Oc-

cas. Refl. v. ix. 176 Persons of the fairer Sex.  a  1700 EVELYN  Diary 12 Nov. an. 1644, The 

Pillar .. at which the devout sex are always rubbing their chaplets. 1701 STANHOPE St. Aug. 

Medit. I. xxxv. (1704) 82, I may .. not suffer my self to be outdone by the weaker Sex. 1732 

[see FAIR a. I b]. 1753 HOGARTH Anal. Beauty x. 65 An elegant degree of plumpness peculiar 

to the skin of the softer sex. 1820 BYRON Juan IV. cviii, Benign Ceruleans of the second sex! 

Who advertise new poems by your looks. 1838 Murray’s Hand-bk. N. Germ. 430 It is much 

frequented by the fair sex. 1894 C. D. TYLER in Geog. Jrnl. III. 479 They are beardless, and 

usually wear a shock of unkempt hair, which is somewhat finer in the gentler sex.
  ¶d. Used occas. with extended notion. The third sex: eu-
nuchs. Also sarcastically (see quot. 1873). 

1820 BYRON Juan IV. lxxxvi, From all the Pope makes yearly, ‘twould perplex To find three 

perfect pipes of the third sex. Ibid. V. xxvi, A black old neutral personage Of the third sex 

stept up. [1873 LD. HOUGHTON Monogr. 280 Sydney Smith .. often spoke with much bitterness 

of the growing belief in three Sexes of Humanity—Men, Women, and Clergymen.]
  e. The sex: the female sex. [F. le sexe.] Now rare.