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emasculation

NOUN
castration
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NOUN
weakness
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They seem to understand this as the natural push-pull of a long egalitarian partnership, not a source of emasculation.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2024

“It’s basically about the masculinization of men, instead of the emasculation of men,” Mr. Sorbo told The Times.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2023

That means there’s still time to save the Office of Congressional Ethics from emasculation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

After being brought low, Affleck’s persona has been infused with a humanizing appeal, as the sad Ben Affleck figure conveys a universal angst spiked with a strangely appealing emasculation.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

After this emasculation the paragraph only stated that "slaves who were abandoned by their owners on the advance of our troops" should not be returned to the enemy.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)



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