unsex
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Lady Macbeth has no such qualms when she’s summoning evil spirits to unsex her in “Macbeth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me from the crown to the toe, top full Of direst cruelty!
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce
Let her be true to her own glorious nature, and this attempt to unsex and discrown her will meet with the swift and terrible condemnation it deserves.
From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton
Shall she return To vex our souls, unsex our wives and daughters, And spoil our pictures as she did of old?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
George Eliot, as a true artist, sees what is faulty in the catastrophe, but she will not unsex her creation.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
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