"both-handedness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1893, John Clark Ridpath, Great races of mankind, page 40:",
          "text": "It has been claimed by some modern scientists that ambidexterity, or both-handedness, is the natural condition of the race, and that the use of one hand or the other by preference is an acquired habit belonging to the period of development in childhood.",
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          "ref": "2012, Sally Smith, No Easy Answer: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Until recently, and even now, both-handedness (ambidextrousness) has been mentioned as a cause of reading difficulties rather than seen as an indicator of immaturity.",
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          "ref": "2013, Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 291:",
          "text": "The binary nature of the study in effect erases mixed or both-handedness.",
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        "Ambidexterity."
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          "ref": "1867, C.H. Spurgeon, The Sword and the trowel, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "Serving God with one hand and the devil with the other is a style of both-handedness from which we may well pray to be saved.",
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          "ref": "2011, Nilashis Nandi, Chirality in Biological Nanospaces: Reactions in Active Sites, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "The opposite-handednesses of the monolayer domains composed of D- and L-enantiomers, presence of both-handedness in racemic domains, ...",
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          "ref": "2014, D. Stanley-Jones, K. Stanley-Jones, The Kybernetics of Natural Systems: A Study in Patterns of Control, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "They exhibit accordingly that property of amphi-cheirality or both-handedness which was noted in the laterales nerves of the lamprey, betokening a possible affinity with the circular neural ring of the jelly-fish.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, →ISBN, page 291:",
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          "ref": "2011, Nilashis Nandi, Chirality in Biological Nanospaces: Reactions in Active Sites, →ISBN, page 5:",
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        },
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