castrativeadj.
/kaˈstreɪtɪv/, /kəˈstreɪtɪv/, U.S. /kæˈstreɪdɪv/ Of, or relating to, or tending to produce the same effect as, castration.
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1943 T. M. French in S. S. Tomkins Contemp. Psychopath. xiii. 208 A little girl will ward off the dangerous temptation to father incest by castrative impulses toward the father.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female iv. 85 Societies in which..the initiatory rites are not accompanied by any such overwhelming castrative feelings.
1960 J. B. Broadbent Some Graver Subject i. 33 It seems likely that, powerful, widowed, son-ambitious, a jealous god, he had a ‘castrative’ effect on Milton.
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