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
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” &c.— is that of one who had habitually familiarised her imagination to dreadful conceptions, and was trying to do so still more.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now the effect of the parasite seems to be to unsex as it were its victims so far as their outward appearance is concerned.
From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders
Mr. Foote remarked, that if there was any other Committee of this House that would or could unsex the female sex, he had no objection to the reference moved.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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