And the genders are seven in number."

"What gender is woman, and why?"Smith's New Gram., p. 8.

Genders, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish objects in regard to sex.

That is, "GENDER is the diversity of the noun according to sex, or [it is] the imitation of it in grammatical structure.

"The two real genders are the masculine and feminine.

A gender is, literally, a sort, a kind, a sex.

But genders, in grammar, are attributes of words, rather than of persons, or animals, or things; whereas sexes are attributes, not of words, but of living creatures.

(46) "Gender, in grammar, is a difference of termination, to express distinction of sex.

Thus Wells: "Gender is the distinction of objects, with regard to sex.

"Gender is a property of the noun which distinguishes sex.

"Gender is a term which is employed for the distinction of nouns with regard to sex and species.

"The relative is parsed by stating its gender, number, case, and antecedent, (the gender and number being always the same as those of the antecedent) thus, 'The boy who.'

When joint antecedents differ in gender, of what gender is the pronoun?