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emasculation|ɪˌmæskjuːˈleɪʃən|
[as if ad. L. ēmasculātiōn-em, noun of action f. ēmasculā-re to emasculate.]
1. The action or process of depriving of virility; the state of impotence.
1623Cockeram ii, A Gelding of a man, emasculation. 1721–1800Bailey, Emasculation, a Gelding, Unmanning, or making Effeminate. 1849Grote Greece (1862) V. ii. lxii. 367 Tying down the patient while the process of emasculation was being consummated.
2. fig. The depriving of force, vigour, or manliness; making weak or effeminate; prudish expurgation of a literary work.
1654Gayton Fest. Notes 22 The emasculations were some Scotch mans. 1815Southey Lett. (1856) II. 393 As for his emasculations, they must be submitted to. 1865Pall Mall G. 12 Oct. 1 Centuries of emasculation and oppression under foreign and domestic tyranny. 1886J. W. Ebsworth in Roxb. Ball. (1886) VI. 198 This emasculation looks like the notorious Lady Wardlaw's handiwork. |