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Definition of Emasculations
1. emasculation [n] - See also: emasculation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emasculations
Literary usage of Emasculations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1825)
"Every one can judge how deeply the happiest passage may be marred by such
emasculations; as ' fashioned in form of church,' ' fashioned like hound,' ' more ..."
2. The Stage in America, 1897-1900 by Norman Hapgood (1901)
"How infinitely better is this able and buoyant farce than most of the French
emasculations which are sprung upon us in such rapid procession! ..."
3. Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1856)
"... his emasculations, they must be submitted to, and I have never remonstrated
against them; but he has no business to insert his own opinions in direct ..."
4. Publications of the Southern History Association by Southern History Association (1899)
"The writer speaks with authority when he says that these emasculations were the
work of the late ..."
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