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eunuchism en · NOUN

Etymology

Latin eunuchismus (“act of unmanning”), equivalent to eunuch + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The condition of being a eunuch.
   • A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:
   • Again, that Eunuchism (not in itself, but) for the Kingdom of Heaven, is better than it, we doubt not. 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

Relateds

eunuch

Synonyms

eunuchry

Translations (1)

de Eunuchismus (eunuchism)