emasculation

Examples of emasculated

emasculated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The falconet is indeed 'entoiled by means of a fair maiden' - and emasculated.
Unfortunately, the ethical proscriptions have been emasculated by financial pressures, by increasing commercialism of academic medicine, and by profiteering.
None the less the measure, however emasculated, became law.
The gendered and marital metaphor, on the one hand, sympathetically underscores the emasculated situation of a clerk.
For these three pollination treatments, buds were opened, emasculated and enclosed with paper bags just before anthesis.
Such rent-seeking activities emasculated prospects for growth in the domestic market as well as abroad.
He is emasculated; a small, utterly ordinary, and insignificant figure, he has no clear role to play in this realm.
However, without addressing the underlying distribution of power, judiciaries will likely remain emasculated.
Flowers were emasculated by removing the anthers before anthesis in the early evening.
Arthurian patriarchs do not survive but are replaced by fraternal figures, avuncular figures, sons of emasculated fathers, femmes fatales, and an occasional monster or two.
All the pollen was collected as a mixture and applied to the emasculated flowers with a brush.
The emasculated flowers were collected just at anthesis; 1 or 2 days after anthesis for egg cell isolation.
Emasculated flowers did not produce seeds.
The exaltation of the heroic and the manly may also have revealed the fragility of masculinity in this period, not least in the intensely problematic status of the emasculated.
With conformity defined as a societal norm, the white-collar employee was not specifically emasculated by his corporate position but was simply representative of current social conditions.
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