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/əmˈæskjulˌeɪtɪd/ 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

emasculated adj.

Having the testicles removed; of a male animal.

Synonyms: cut, gelded, sexless.

Deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character.

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Etymology of 'Emasculated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emasculated" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Hell!" Hieronymus says: "Marriage always is a vice; all that we can do is to excuse and cleanse it," hence it was made a sacrament of the Church. Origen declares: "Marriage is something unholy and unclean, a means for sensuality," and, in order to resist the temptation, he emasculated himself. Tertulian declares: "Celibacy is preferable, even if the human race goes to ground." Augustine teaches: "The celibates will shine in heaven like brilliant stars, while their parents (who brought them forth) are like dark stars." Eusebius and Hieronymus agree that the Biblical ...

— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... precepts given from time to time for the conquest of passion, and displayed the happiness of those who had obtained the important victory, after which man is no longer the slave of fear nor the fool of hope; is no more emaciated by envy, inflamed by anger, emasculated by tenderness, or depressed by grief; but walks on calmly through the tumults or privacies of life, as the sun pursues alike his course through the calm ...

— Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia • Samuel Johnson

... sacrifice and it appears that some inflicted upon themselves an even worse one. Fraser[5] tells us of this worship which was introduced from Assyria into Rome about two hundred years before Christ. It was the worship of Cybele and Attis. These deities were attended by emasculated priests and the priests in oriental costume ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... "The characteristic phallus consecration of Isis shows us that her sorrow predominantly concerns the loss of the phallus, (and it also is expressed in the fact that according to a later version, she is none the less in a mysterious manner impregnated by her emasculated spouse), so on the other hand the conduct of the cruel brother shows us that in the dismemberment he was particularly interested in the phallus, since that indeed was the only thing not to be found, and had evidently been hidden with special precautionary measures. Indeed both ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... common man who would expose to each other and the world a number of hapless, trusting females who had favoured him with their affections, and from the top of a tree would feast his eyes upon their agonies of shame and rage, would deserve to be—emasculated. Had Ab Gwilym been so dead to every feeling of gratitude and honour as to play the part which the story makes him play, he would have deserved not only to be emasculated, but to be scourged with harp-strings in every market-town in Wales, and to be dismissed ...

— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

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