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/əmˈæskjulɪt/ /əmˈæskjulˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Emasculate v. t. (past & past part. emasculated; pres. part. emasculating)

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. "Luxury had not emasculated their minds."

adjective

emasculate adj. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave."

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Etymology of 'Emasculate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emasculate" Quotes from Famous Books

... See do not produce or aggravate open broils with the civil power, by undermining moral liberty, they impair moral responsibility, and silently, in the succession of generations, if not in the lifetime of individuals, tend to emasculate ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

... value. From this a change came about; the warrior instinct, however, still claimed that the vanquished, even if a slave, should still convey or carry some sign of servitude. The original idea of the ablation of the phallus was to emasculate the victim; investigation developed the idea that the same object could be accomplished by castration, an operation which also finally reached a tolerable state of perfection through different stages of evolution, it first being performed by a complete removal of the whole scrotum and ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... was an artist in that time; he was but one of the many who, in every department, sought, in study and in science, the secrets of the wise or the beautiful. Pericles and Phidias were in their several paths of fame what Sophocles was in his. But it was not the art of an emasculate or effeminate period—it grew out of the example of a previous generation of men astonishingly great. It was art still fresh from the wells of nature. Art with a vast field yet unexplored, and in all its youthful vigour ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... and from affairs of state abstain; Women emasculate a monarch's reign; And murmuring crowds, who see them shine with gold, That pomp, as their own ravished ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden

... toll in this sort of the 'risqu' situations incidental to their plots, the dressing up of men as women in the former, and of women as men in the latter. Needless to say, no faithful translator will emasculate his author by expurgation, and the reader will here find Aristophanes' Comedies as Aristophanes wrote them, not as Mrs. Grundy might wish him ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

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