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Definition of Desexing
1. desex [v] - See also: desex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desexing
| deservednesses deserver deservers deserves deservest deserveth deserving deserving(p) deservingly deservingness | deservings desetope desferrioxamine desferrioxamine mesylate desflurane deshabille |
Literary usage of Desexing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eugenics: Twelve University Lectures by Morton Arnold Aldrich, William Herbert Carruth, Charles Benedict Davenport, Charles Abram Ellwood, Arthur Holmes, Harvey Ernest Jordan, William Henry Howell, Albert Galloway Keller, Edward Lee Thorndike, Victor Clarence Vaughan, Herbert John Webber, Ro (1914)
"In the case of males where the desexing can be accomplished so easily by the ...
In the case of females all methods of desexing that have been devised are ..."
2. Taboo and Genetics: A Study of the Biological, Sociological and by Melvin Moses Knight (1920)
"Only in 1878 was the practice of desexing boys to get the famous adult male
soprano voices for the Sistine Choir ..."
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