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Definition of Defeminize
1. Verb. Remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats).
Definition of Defeminize
1. Verb. To lose, or to remove feminine characteristics or qualities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defeminize
1. [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defeminize
Literary usage of Defeminize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anabolic Steroid Abuse by Geraline C. Lin (1996)
"Organizational effects of testosterone permanently bias an organism in a masculine
fashion as well as defeminize it. They promote aggressive behavior if ..."
2. Woman Through the Ages by Emil Reich (1908)
"But there is one movement to which allusion is imperative: the feminine movement;
that is to say, the movement by women to defeminize themselves. ..."
3. Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism: The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the by Benjamin Vestal Hubbard (1915)
"... therefore, for the sake of both boys and girls, let us defeminize the schools
and develop grand men from our boys and noble women from our girls instead ..."
4. A Free Lance: Being Short Paragraphs and Detached Pages from an Author's by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1912)
"... defeminize women. The fear may be groundless, but it is operative nevertheless.
My own belief in the matter is that the enfranchisement of women will ..."
5. Why Women are So by Mary Roberts Coolidge (1912)
"... which were opposed because they might defeminize young women, provided the
first and best equipment for training in the subjects related to housekeeping ..."
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