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Definition of Emasculates
1. emasculate [v] - See also: emasculate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emasculates
Literary usage of Emasculates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology: An Inquiry by Richard Payne Knight (1876)
"emasculates AND VIRGINS IN THE SACERDOTAL OFFICE. 226. Among the rites and customs
of the Temple at Hier- apolis, as well as in those of Phrygia, ..."
2. The Restored New Testament: The Hellenic Fragments, Freed from the Pseudo by James Morgan Pryse (1914)
"The coarsely worded parenthetical clause about emasculates, or eunuchs, interrupts
the sense, and is obviously an interpolation. The forger who foisted in ..."
3. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"That a fly really emasculates the Striped Squirrel ... the Black and Gray, also,
that the old Gray Squirrel emasculates the young of the same species. ..."
4. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1865)
"bauches as that it emasculates the mind ; though we ... Popery emasculates the
soul, and professedly mortifies the body ; and then, because in our mixed ..."
5. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"Kronos devours his children, as the wild boar devours the brood of the sow ; Zeus
emasculates his father * and takes his place as a ruler. ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1884)
"... manners, etc.; how insensibly an undue attention to these dissipates and
impoverishes the mind, robs it of its simplicity and strength, emasculates it. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"If the greed of gain pollutes and rots the roots of the country's strength, if
moral cowardice emasculates its manhood and womanhood, if the lust of office ..."
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