| 释义 |
unˈsex, v.
[un-2 6 b.]
trans. To deprive or divest of sex, or of the typical qualities of one or other (esp. the female) sex. Also fig.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. v. 42 Come you Spirits, That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here. 1793Murphy Tacitus I. 73 If a woman can thus unsex herself at the head of the eagles. 1844Mrs. Browning To G. Sand 13 Beat purer, heart,..Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore. 1852Smedley L. Arundel xxxviii. 289 A foreign education, than which we know not a better receipt for unsexing the minds of the daughters of Albion. 1955Auden Shield of Achilles i. 27 A day that meekly takes The potter's cuff, a gravel that as concrete Will unsex any space which it encloses.
Hence unˈsexing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
[1775Ash.] 1812Examiner 11 May 302/2 Her unsexing ambition. 1851Illustr. Lond. News 27 Sept. 395/2 In reply to the objection of unsexing. |