Definition of Evirates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of evirate) ¹

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Definition of Evirates

1. evirate [v] - See also: evirate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evirates

evill
eviller
evillest
evilly
evilness
evilnesses
evils
evince
evinced
evinces
evincible
evincing
evincive
evirate
evirated
evirates (current term)
evirating
eviration
eviscerate
eviscerated
eviscerates
eviscerating
evisceration
eviscerations
eviscerator
eviscerators
evisceroneurotomy
evitability
evitable
evitably

Literary usage of Evirates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"They often tend to cultivate a gushy, religious sentimentalism of a unique type that evirates character, favor flightiness, unctuousness, ..."

2. Melomaniacs by James Huneker (1902)
"... dowered with ambiguous attitudes, with anonymous gestures, is color become sound, sensuality in the mask of Beauty. This Klingsor tears down, evirates, ..."

3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1877)
"... evirates esse, to be emasculated, to become impotent, forming the word I maintain immediately from ..."

4. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"Almost all these evirates wrote French verses, and used to emulate: each other in writing little pieces, the gaiety, naturalness and pleasantry of which ..."

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