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Emasculated   Listen
adjective
emasculated  adj.  
1.
Having the testicles removed; of a male animal.
Synonyms: cut, gelded, sexless.
2.
Deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character.





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"Emasculated" Quotes from Famous Books



... utmost confusion prevailed and there was a perfect warfare of tongues; but, singular to say, the women were compelled to hold their tongues and depart, followed by a number of male Betties and subdued husbands, wearing the apparel of manhood, but in reality emasculated by strong-minded women.... ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... metropolitan society many men so emasculated that they are quite vain of being blase—fools that with conscious superiority smile disdainfully at those still possessing simple, wholesome tastes for things which they in their indescribable accent characterize as ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who stops at the best houses, so called, soon discovers this, for the publicans presume him to be a Sardanapalus, and if he resigned himself to their tender mercies he would soon be completely emasculated. I think that in the railroad car we are inclined to spend more on luxury than on safety and convenience, and it threatens without attaining these to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun-shades, and a hundred other oriental things, which we are ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... in the male than in the hornless female. I am informed by Mr. Blyth that the male, without shedding his hair, periodically becomes darker during the breeding-season. Young males cannot be distinguished from young females until about twelve months old; and if the male is emasculated before this period, he never, according to the same authority, changes colour. The importance of this latter fact, as evidence that the colouring of the Portax is of sexual origin, becomes obvious, when we hear ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Emasculated" :   gelded, cut, unsexed


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