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Unsex  v. t.  (past & past part. unsexed; pres. part. unsexing)  To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.






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"Unsex" Quotes from Famous Books



... life in lovely woman first, And after life true honour should be dear; Nay, wanting honour—of all wants the worst— Friend! nought remains of loved or lovely here. And who, alas! has honour's barrier burst, Unsex'd and dead, though fair she yet appear, Leads a vile life, in shame and torment curst, A lingering death, where all is dark and drear. To me no marvel was Lucretia's end, Save that she needed, when that last disgrace Alone sufficed to kill, a sword to die. Sophists in ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch



Words linked to "Unsex" :   demasculinize, fix, strip, alter, spay, demasculinise, change, emasculate, deprive, sterilise, vasectomise, neuter, desexualize, sterilize, castrate, desexualise, operate, operate on, divest, modify, vasectomize, desex



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