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Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
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emasculation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
emasculation \e*mas`cu*la"tion\, n. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, noun of action from emasculate .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration. 2 The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. loss of power and masculinity neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: castration ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emasculation is the removal of the penis and the testicles , the external male sex organs . Removal of the testicles alone is termed castration . Emasculation was a form of punishment in Medieval Europe and sometimes formed part of the process of being ...
Usage examples of emasculation.
Now that the killing lust had fled, Skald began to feel the effects of his emasculation.
I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.
They would have resisted at all costs national emasculation such as the said wrongs imply.
I would have considered myself honor-bound to present that chapter unbowdlerized, were it not for Campbell's request, right in the body of the text, that some editor perform the emasculation.