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emasculatingly en · ADV

Etymology

From emasculating + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to emasculate.
   • Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment. 1998, Deborah Vlock, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, page 35:
   • "By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed. 2016, Andrew Mitchell, Furious Tales:

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