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  • adjective Causing (the effects of) castration

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Examples

  • They jokingly attributed the Army with "castrative intentions," sometimes commenting, "They might as well cut the damn thing off as soon as you get into the Army, and be done with it."

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • All I'm really saying is I don't want to help elect for President someone, male or female, who in my opinion should be fully committed to rearing the children they chose to bring into the world, an opinion vaguely expressed by Obama himself which caused Jesse Jackson to go all castrative on him.

    3 questions about Sarah Palin the Obama supporter should not want to ask. Ann Althouse 2008

  • On the other hand the first straws testing the winds of Ar, cast in the streets, in the baths, in the taverns and markets, had been blown back with such fierceness that these castrative proposals had been almost immediately withdrawn.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • On the other hand the first straws testing the winds of Ar, cast in the streets, in the baths, in the taverns and markets, had been blown back with such fierceness that these castrative proposals had been almost immediately withdrawn.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • ricpic, All I'm really saying is I don't want to help elect for President someone, male or female, who in my opinion should be fully committed to rearing the children they chose to bring into the world, an opinion vaguely expressed by Obama himself which caused Jesse Jackson to go all castrative on him.

    3 questions about Sarah Palin the Obama supporter should not want to ask. Ann Althouse 2008

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