eviration
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]eviration (uncountable)
- (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.