All 3 Uses
emasculate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- His face had grown wrinkled, yellow, and strangely emasculate.†
Chpt 3 *
- With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov's emasculate, sickly face, with the little curls combed forward on his forehead.†
Chpt 5
- His thin emasculate face seemed to have become so tiny; his hair was ruffled, and his crest of curls in front stood up in a thin tuft.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(emasculate as in: non-enforcement emasculated it) to make weak or ineffectual
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(2)
(emasculate as in: felt emasculated by his mother) to make a male less masculine
or:
to remove the testicles of a male animal - (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)