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Emasculation   Listen
noun
emasculation  n.  
1.
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
2.
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.





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"Emasculation" Quotes from Famous Books



... expurgation is freely employed, the result is a kind of emasculation. Nothing is left that can offend or annoy living people, or that might damage the writer's own reputation with an audience that enjoys, yet condemns, unmeasured confidences. And so we get clever, sensible letters of men who have ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall


Words linked to "Emasculation" :   altering, softness, effeminacy, fixing, neutering, womanishness


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