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/əmˈæskjulˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Emasculate v. t. (past & past part. emasculated; pres. part. emasculating)

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. "Luxury had not emasculated their minds."

adjective

emasculated adj.

Having the testicles removed; of a male animal.

Synonyms: cut, gelded, sexless.

Deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character.

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Etymology of 'Emasculated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emasculated" Quotes from Famous Books

... diplomacy. Not embassies, but regiments, overcome intrenched oppression. Men of integrity and refinement can have but one attitude toward corruption, drunkenness, parasitism, gilded iniquity—the attitude of uncompromising hostility. Languorous, emasculated manhood may silently endure great wrongs for the sake of peace and quiet; but robust manhood never. One of the dangers of our age and nation is a tendency to conciliate wrong and smooth over wickedness through a spurious sense of charity. Genius gilds ...

— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis

... those who believe in prayer—not in the emasculated modern sense, but in the old Hebrew sense, deep as the other is shallow. We believe there is some connection between knowing and caring and praying, and what happens afterwards. Otherwise we should leave the darkness to cover the things that belong to the dark. We should be for ever dumb about ...

— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... desired to cut his wilderness into a mincing replica of some emasculated British royal forest nobody seemed able to explain. While at Palm Beach he had made two sage observations to Hamil concerning the sacredness of trees; one was that there are no trees in a Scotch deer forest, which proved to his satisfaction that ...

— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... we may judge of matter by the mind, Emasculated to the marrow, it Hath but two objects, how to serve and bind, Deeming the chain it wears even men may fit, Eutropius of its many masters, blind To worth as freedom, wisdom as to wit, Fearless, because no feeling dwells in ice; Its very courage ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... "Our emasculated contemporary, not content with debauching Eatanswill politics, must go far afield and drag from his grave an obscure and feeble being whom he claims to make one of his besmirched heroes. But Potts' praise, as we have learned long since, is no more than daubing its object with dirt. ...

— Pickwickian Studies • Percy Fitzgerald

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