Examples of emasculate

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Such relativism effectively ghettoises religions by emasculating any public relevance they may claim.
Too many pieces are" emasculated with this epidemical effeminacy".
In effect, they have emasculated themselves and become wanton.
The white master emasculated enslaved men in the eyes of enslaved women by making enslaved women dependent on the master rather than on fellow men.
Unfortunately, the ethical proscriptions have been emasculated by financial pressures, by increasing commercialism of academic medicine, and by profiteering.
Indeed, in 1763, the government found itself all but emasculated by widespread opposition to its fiscal policies which affected several parlements simultaneously.
The falconet is indeed 'entoiled by means of a fair maiden' - and emasculated.
None the less the measure, however emasculated, became law.
Such rent-seeking activities emasculated prospects for growth in the domestic market as well as abroad.
Flowers were emasculated by removing the anthers before anthesis in the early evening.
He is emasculated; a small, utterly ordinary, and insignificant figure, he has no clear role to play in this realm.
Even then it ensured that there would be emasculating exemptions.
Through representational strategies that plumbed extended metaphors of masculine invigoration an opposition to the emasculating connotations of sociological critique was discernible.
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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