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

Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri�res.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet they and all of you are dreadfully exercised for fear having a vote would unsex women.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth

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 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

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