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1797 J. Walker Elem. Geogr. (ed. 3) vii. 125 The Linnaean system..is founded on the sexuality of plants.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 325 The wonderful diversity of forms..to which mere sexuality gives rise amongst insects.

1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ I. 63 Larger cœnobia,..with daughter-cœnobia enclosed within the mother, evolved without sexuality.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs vii. 127 In the freshwater Valvata tricarinata there is a more complicated rhythmical sexuality, with a regular return to a male phase after the eggs are laid.

1979 D. Attenborough Life on Earth (1981) 1. 24 The first is called an egg and the second a sperm—for this is the dawning of sexuality.

1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) ii. 151/2 Reproduction, always in the absence of any sign of sexuality, takes place within a cyst as a form of multiple fission.

1888 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 436/2 According to a strict biological definition sexuality is the characteristic of the male and female reproductive elements (genoblasts), and sex of the individuals in which the reproductive elements arise. A man has sex, a spermatozoon sexuality.

1908 S. A. Cook Relig. Anc. Palestine iii. 29 [The Astarte plaques] offer a large variety of types from the coarsest exaggeration of sexuality to highly conventionalised forms.

1833 A. Picken Traditionary Stories Old Families I. xii. 251 This, like most matters of love and sexuality, became the bitter bottoming of many sorrows.

1834 E. Moor Oriental Fragments 220 The ardent fanaticism of convents is of necessity often blended with unconscious sexuality, that would if recognised shock the virtuous aspirant.

1851 C. Kingsley Yeast viii. 136 Paradise and hell..as grossly material as Mahomet's, without the honest thorough-going sexuality, which you thought made his notion logical and consistent.

1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) xxvii. 223 In removing the ovaries you do not necessarily destroy sexuality in a woman.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 191 Precocious sexuality..interferes with normal mental growth.

1928 H. G. Baynes & C. F. Baynes in tr. C. G. Jung Contrib. Analyt. Psychol. iii. 58 Freud overlooks the fact that the infantile, polyvalent beginnings are not merely a peculiar, perverse pre-stage of a normal and mature sexuality.

1962 Sunday Times 11 Nov. 25/7 The increasing enlightenment over the nature of sexuality which was a secondary aim of the Stopes/Ellis pioneers.

1981 P. Roth Afterword in tr. M. Kundera Bk. Laughter & Forgetting 236 These days, when sexuality is no longer taboo, mere description, mere sexual confession, has become noticeably boring.

2004 Tri-valley Herald (Pleasanton, Calif.) (Nexis) 9 July Some parents..feel that matters of sexuality should best be taught at home.

1893 C. A. Clarke Knobstick xiii. 137 Under the unsteady inspiration of..alcohol, there was rude and uproarious bawling of music hall ditties..and chuckling sexualities were tossed to and fro.