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Definition of Evirates
1. evirate [v] - See also: evirate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evirates
Literary usage of Evirates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"They often tend to cultivate a gushy, religious sentimentalism of a unique type
that evirates character, favor flightiness, unctuousness, ..."
2. Melomaniacs by James Huneker (1902)
"... dowered with ambiguous attitudes, with anonymous gestures, is color become
sound, sensuality in the mask of Beauty. This Klingsor tears down, evirates, ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1877)
"... evirates esse, to be emasculated, to become impotent, forming the word I
maintain immediately from ..."
4. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"Almost all these evirates wrote French verses, and used to emulate: each other
in writing little pieces, the gaiety, naturalness and pleasantry of which ..."
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