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"Emasculate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... representative. If they are even ladies paramount, and in situations of command, they are also women. The staff of authority does not annihilate their sex; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to unnerve and emasculate in their hands the sceptre however otherwise potent. Hence we see, in noble families, the merest boys put forward to represent the family dignity, as fitter supporters of that burden than their mature mothers. And of Csar's mother, though little is recorded, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey |
Words linked to "Emasculate" : desex, desexualise, sterilise, geld, caponize, sterilize, effeminate, desexualize, weaken, unmanful, unmanlike, unsex, cut, caponise, unmanly, emasculation, cissy, fix |
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