Definitions
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- n. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- n. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- n. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of depriving a male of the functions which characterize the sex; castration.
- n. The act of depriving of vigor or strength; specifically, the act of eliminating or altering parts of a literary work in such a manner as to deprive it of its original force or vividness.
- n. The state of being emasculated; effeminacy; unmanly weakness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. loss of power and masculinity
- n. neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
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Examples
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In his address Miller lamented what he called the emasculation of the province's powers and role with regard to local government.
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Just remember, kids, violence and emasculation is the only rock-solid cure for teh ghey.
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One of the concerns that is expressed by the proponents of this project is the "emasculation" of the Bible.
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Tensions that resulted in the symbolic emasculation of our one great government institution supportive of the creative process of America's artists, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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This emasculation is reinforced in the staffing of devalued and disavowed reproductive labor activities on the American military base, with poor men of color migrating from South and Southeast Asia making up the vast majority of these workers.
David Isenberg: The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors
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In this case, the aggressive undertaking on the part of the United States is emboldened by its masculine qualities--which in turn are emboldened by the emasculation of the rest of the world.
David Isenberg: The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors
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Killing or gutting Medicare would be a symbolic emasculation of Lyndon Johnson, but it would also relieve a source of government spending that's increasing the demand to raise taxes on the wealthy.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Nihilist Party: Republicans Who Believe in Nothing
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They have yet to recover from expelling their Jews in 1933, and from the post-WWII emasculation of their traditional elitism in the name of egalitarianism.
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He refuses to make commercials for cigarettes, war toys, and liquor, instead making ludicrously shocking commercials (in color even) like the interracial duet for Face-Off Acne Cream (“Pimples are simple”) and the ad for Dinkleberry Frozen Chicken Pot Pies (“Miss Redneck, N.J. is a social worker and her favorite hobby is emasculation”).
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No, they have an annual hoedown (hoe as in shovel, rake, hoe, not “ho” as in strumpet) and celebrate the emasculation.
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