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unsex

[uhn-seks] / ʌnˈsɛks /


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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

Beat purer, heart, and higher,    Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore    Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!

From Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1 by Frederick Niecks

Beat purer, heart, and higher, Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!

From Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete by Frederick Niecks

“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

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


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