Pausing in the doorway he said: `` The form of the human female, unlike her mind and her spirit, is the most challenging loveliness in all nature ''.

Also fine are Sue Lawless, as a mother more protective and belligerent than a female spider and just as destructive, Harold Cherry, as her scratchy spouse, and Hildy Weissman, as a vegetable in human form.

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.

An abbess ( Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot ) is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey.

Its female form is Anastasia.

The female form is Alexia ().

: huiotes ); according to Marcus, they are numbers and sounds ; in Valentinianism they form male / female pairs called " syzygies " ( Greek, from σύζυγοι syzygoi ).

Female masking is a form of cross-dressing in which men wear masks that present them as female.

The 1997 Rolf de Heer film, Epsilon, also known as Alien Visitor, an alien in female form descends to Earth from Epsilon in the Southern Cross, and inspires an Outback traveler to better his planet.

The beast then takes the form of a female figure and disappears through the door without opening it.

A male and female can form consortship and mate outside their community.

On another level, the one-piece catsuit accentuated and exaggerated the sexualized female form, providing visual access to a woman's body, while simultaneously obstructing physical penetrative access.

This abbreviation stands for the Dutch title doctorandus Latin for " he who should become a doctor " ( female form is " doctoranda ").

The cosmogenic myth common in Sumeria was that of the hieros gamos, a sacred marriage where divine principles in the form of dualistic opposites came together as male and female to give birth to the cosmos.

The Gothic novel shaped its form for female readers to “ turn to Gothic romances to find support for their own mixed feelings ”.

In some Christian traditions ( like the Orthodox tradition ), Sophia is the personification of either divine wisdom ( or of an archangel ) which takes female form.

The personal pronouns li ( he ) and ŝi ( she ) and their possessive forms lia ( his ) and ŝia ( her ) are used for male and female antecedents, while ĝi ( it ) and its possessive form ĝia ( its ) are used to refer to a non-personal antecedent, or as an epicene pronoun.

Jacob Grimm theorized that Hel ( whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-Germanic form of the term ) is essentially an " image of a greedy, unrestoring, female deity " and that " the higher we are allowed to penetrate into our antiquities, the less hellish and more godlike may Halja appear.

According to this view, when the female portion of Adam separated to form Eve, disharmony followed, but one could attempt to regain harmony through celibacy.

The males provide a nuptial gift for the females in the form of a spermatophylax, a body attached to the males ' spermatophore which is consumed by the female.

Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ) describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

In the Hebrew of the contemporary State of Israel, the word pilegesh is often used as the equivalent of the English word, mistress — i. e. the female partner in extramarital relations, regardless of legal recognition.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

( Contrary to popular misuse, the word " colt " refers to a young male horse only ; " filly " is a young female.

Similarly, gender is also not implied in the word kami, which can be used to refer to either male or female kami.

The word, the use of female kami is a fairly new tradition.

The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an adjective, to describe characteristics of an object or activity related to female same-sex desire.

The use of " Lesbian " in medical literature became prominent ; by 1925, the word was recorded as a noun to mean the female equivalent of a sodomite.

In a manner very similar to, the Gospel of Philip presents Mary Magdalene among Jesus ' female entourage, adding that she was his koinônos, a Greek word variously translated in contemporary versions as partner, associate, comrade, companion.

An ovum ( plural ova, from the Latin word ovum meaning egg or egg cell ) is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete.

The word lesbian derives from the name of the island of her birth, Lesbos, while her name is also the origin of the word sapphic ; neither word was applied to female homosexuality until the nineteenth century.

In casual conversation, the word vagina is often used to refer to the vulva or to the female genitals in general.

Besides basic properties of semantics, semantic property is also sometimes used to describe the semantic components of a word, such as man assuming that the referent is human, male, and adult, or female being a common component of girl, woman, and actress.

One theory is derivation from the old German word " Mähre " ( ahd, meaning female horse ), where misinterpretation of the German name Meerrettich (" sea radish ") became Mährrettich (" mare radish ").

" Nightmare " evokes the modern word for a female horse but the terms are wholly unrelated.

Cunt () is a word that primarily describes the female genitalia, and is widely considered to be highly vulgar.

The word " bitch ", literally meaning a female dog, is a common slang term in the English language, especially used as a denigrating term applied to a person, commonly a woman.

It also may have been derived from the Old Norse word bikkja for " female dog.

" Many female hip hop artists have challenged male rappers ' use of the word bitch to refer to women, with Queen Latifah asking in her 1993 song " U. N. I. T. Y.

Since the word zadeh could refer to either a male or female descendant, Shahzadeh had the parallel meaning of " princess " as well.

German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word " pseudohermaphroditism " in his taxonomy of intersexuality in 1876, although the word is clearly not his invention as is sometimes reported ; the history of the word " pseudohermaphrodite ," and the corresponding desire to separate " true " hermaphrodites from " false ," " spurious ," or " pseudo " hermaphrodites, dates back to at least 1709, when Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch used it in a publication describing a subject with testes and a mostly female phenotype.