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BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY 

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

Empson> 

2sex \“\ vt –ED/–ING/–ES 1: to determine the sex of (an organic
being) <it is difficult to ~ the animals at a distance—E. A.
Hooton>—compare AUTOSEXING 2 a: to increase the sex-
ual  appeal  or  attraction  of—usu.  used  with  up  <titles 
must be ~ed up to attract 56 million customers—Time> 
b: to arouse the sexual instincts or desires of—usu. used 
with up <watching you ~ing up that bar kitten—Oakley 
Hall> 

9 Oxford English Dictionary 577–578 (1933):

  Sex (seks), sb. Also 6–7 sexe, (6 seex, 7 pl. sexe, 8 poss. 
sexe’s).  [ad. L. sexus (u-stem), whence also F. sexe (12th c.),
Sp., Pg. sexo, It. sesso. Latin had also a form secus neut. (in-
declinable).]
  1.  Either  of  the  two  divisions  of  organic  beings  distin-
guished as male and female respectively; the males or the
females (of a species, etc., esp. of the human race) viewed 
collectively. 

1382 WYCLIF Gen. vi. 19 Of alle thingis hauynge sowle of ony flehs, two thow shalt brynge 

into the ark, that maal sex and femaal lyuen with thee. 1532 MORE Confut. Tindale II. 152, I 

had as leue he bare them both a bare cheryte, as wyth the frayle feminyne sexe fall to far in 

loue. 1559 ALYMER Harborowe E 4 b, Neither of them debarred the heires female .. as though 

it had ben .. vnnatural for that sexe to gouern. 1576 GASCOIGNE  Philomene xcviii, I speake 

against my sex. a 1586 SIDNEY  Arcadia II. (1912) 158 The sexe of womankind of all other is 

most bound to have regardfull eie to mens judgements. 1600 NASHE Summer’s Last Will F 3 

b, A woman they imagine her to be, Because that sexe keepes nothing close they heare. 1615 

CROOKE  Body of Man 274 If wee respect the .. conformation of both the Sexes, the Male is 

sooner perfected .. in the wombe. 1634 SIR T. HERBERT  Trav. 19 Both sexe goe naked. 1667 

MILTON P. L. IX, 822 To add what wants In Femal Sex. 1671—Samson 774 It was a weakness 

In me, but incident to all our sex. 1679 DRYDEN Troilus & Cr. I. ii, A strange dissembling sex 

we women are. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 10 ¶ 6 Their Amusements .. are more adapted to the 

Sex  than to  the  Species.  1730  SWIFT  Let.  to  Mrs.  Whiteway  28  Dec.,  You  have  neither  the 

scrawl nor the spelling of your sex. 1742 GRAY  Propertius II. 73 She .. Condemns her fickle 

Sexe’s fond Mistake. 1763 G. WILLIAMS in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 265 It would