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eunuchistic

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Etymology

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eunuch +‎ -istic

Adjective

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eunuchistic (comparative more eunuchistic, superlative most eunuchistic)

  1. Of or relating to eunuchism.
    • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page v:
      They discovered that sex repression was a potentially greater evil than either polygamy or monogamy, and might well prove so disastrous that promiscuity even would present a more satisfactory solution of the erotic enigma. The eunuchistic concepts of the Origenes, the Skoptzis, et al., were admittedly indicative of sexual obsessions far more dangerous than anything which came within the realm of normal sex expression.