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eviration

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Etymology

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Latin eviratio.

Noun

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eviration (uncountable)

  1. (now rare, historical) Emasculation; effeminacy.
    • 1995, Gary Kates, Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman, BasicBooks, page 170:
      Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.