"gynomania" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1877, Scientific American - Volume 36; Volume 36, page 41:",
          "text": "The case of gynomania above cited has never before been published, but we can vouch for its truth: and we fear that it is not an isolated case.",
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          "ref": "1881, Gaillard's Medical Journal - Volume 31, page 368:",
          "text": "Sometimes the disease takes the form of sexual excitement being produced in a man by wearing articles of female attire. This has been called \"gynomania.\"",
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          "ref": "1899, Charles Féré, The Pathology of emotions, page 393:",
          "text": "In sensual love (cytheromania, gynomania, andromania, satyriasis, nymphomania) one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche.",
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          "ref": "1900, Frederic Carrel, The Realization of Justin Moran, page 35:",
          "text": "Baron de Flach, a retired Viennese financier, had contrived to insinuate himself into that land of armorial bearings by purchasing the house of the descendant of a Crusader, ruined by gambling and gynomania.",
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          "ref": "1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century:",
          "text": "The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.",
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          "text": "In place of phallocentrism, the narratives preoccupy us with the gynomania of brown Sello's Medusa.",
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