Crossword clues for emasculation
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
1620s, noun of action from emasculate.
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
n. loss of power and masculinity
neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: castration]
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 hanged, drawn and quartered.
By extension, the word has also come to mean to render a male less of a man, or to make a male feel less of a man by humiliation. This metaphorical usage of the word is much more common than the application of its literal meaning. It can also mean the reduction or removal of force behind a statute or legislation, for example, "the Triennial Act was emasculated by the Cavalier Parliament".
The removal of male (pollen) parts of a plant, largely for controlled pollination and breeding purposes, is also called emasculation.
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.