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Emasculate   Listen
verb
Emasculate  v. t.  (past & past part. emasculated; pres. part. emasculating)  
1.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. "Luxury had not emasculated their minds."





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"Emasculate" Quotes from Famous Books



... still,—how long, O ye Heavens, in the country of Dante? These, that fanaticized Europe, which now can forget them, release not This, their choicest of prey, this Italy; here you can see them,— Here, with emasculate pupils and gimcrack churches of Gesu, Pseudo-learning and lies, confessional-boxes and postures,— Here, with metallic beliefs and regimental devotions,— Here, overcrusting with shame, perverting, defacing, debasing, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various
... to agree with you about the "emasculate" and "uncircumcised"-partly for your reasons, partly because I believe it is an excellent rule always to erase anything that strikes one as particularly smart when writing it. But it is a great piece of self-denial to abstain from expressing ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley


Words linked to "Emasculate" :   unmanly, geld, cissy, castrate, emasculation, sissyish, effeminate, unmanlike, cut, demasculinise, sissy, unsex, caponize, caponise, desex, desexualise, sterilise, sterilize, demasculinize, weaken, fix


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