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unˈwoman, v.
[un-2 6 b.]
1. trans. To deprive of the qualities or traits of a woman; to remove from the category of women. Occas. refl. Also const. of.
1611Florio, Disdonnare, to vnwoman. 1614T. Adams Divells Banket 5 A degenerate woman, unwomaned..of both modestie and chastitie. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 37 Shee, whose wicked deeds Vnwoman'd her. 1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. 123 One weary of her sexe, forbore not to vnwoman her selfe, by assuming not onely a virile habit, but a virago's heart. 1744Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 5 (1748) I. 263 There is nothing..so shocking to the..modesty of our sex,..that we may not..degenerate into, if we proceed to unwoman ourselves. 1839Mrs. Browning Rom. Page xxv, My love..shall requite No woman, whether dark or bright, Unwomaned if she be. 1863Mrs. Oliphant Salem Chapel xxi, Not all her personal wretchedness could unwoman the minister's mother so much as to make her forgive..Phœbe's presumption.
2. To unsex (a woman). rare—1.
1827Lancet 20 Oct. 71 Taking away the ovaries altogether..would unwoman her. |