boilerplate vs epicene

boilerplate

noun
  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • Syndicated material. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

epicene

noun
  • An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class. 

  • A transsexual; also, a transvestite. 

  • An effeminate man. 

  • An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite. 

adj
  • Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex. 

  • Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face. 

  • Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents. 

  • Indeterminate; mixed. 

  • Of a man: effeminate. 

  • Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.). 

How often have the words boilerplate and epicene occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )