emasculation

[ ĭ-măs′kyə-lā′shən ]

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The surgical removal of the testes and penis; castration.

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In terms of foreign policy—or, better put, foreign clout—the U.S. is going through a startling period of auto-emasculation.
Obama Is Weakening America|Tunku Varadarajan|April 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST
No good political economist approves the emasculation of private effort by Government subsidy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864|Various
This has, in the course of time, led to national emasculation.
The Political Future of India|Lajpat Rai
Language has to be softened down for singing, as it need not be for speech; and this softening approaches to emasculation.
Thomas Moore|Stephen Gwynn

I would risk violence a thousand times than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
Freedom's Battle|Mahatma Gandhi
They would have resisted at all costs national emasculation such as the said wrongs imply.
Freedom's Battle|Mahatma Gandhi