eunuchism

American  

[yoo-nuh-kiz-uhm] / ˈyu nəˌkɪz əm /

Also eunuchry

noun

1. the state of being a eunuch.

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Etymology

Origin of eunuchism

First recorded in 1610–20; eunuch + -ism

Example Sentences

From her epoch, eunuchism has become an inseparable attendant on Oriental despotism, and has so continued to the present day.

From Project Gutenberg

Count Raoul Du Bisson, Dedjaz de l’Abyssinie, gives some very interesting information in regard to eunuchism in his work entitled “The Women, the Eunuchs, and the Warriors of the Soudan.”

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Count Bisson has looked on the question from its moral, physical, and demographic stand-points, and, having seen eunuchism in its different aspects, from his landing at Alexandria and Cairo, down through his different expeditions into Arabia, the Soudan, and Abyssinia, his observations are well worth repeating.

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There are physiological facts and pathological conditions brought forth for our contemplation, while investigating the subject of eunuchism in all its details, that cause us to feel that, after all, the old Hippocratic principle of inductive philosophy, upon which our study and practice of medicine is founded, with rational experience and observation for its corner-stone, is, even if commonplace, the only proper avenue of knowledge.

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One reason that this part of the subject would be incomplete without their description is on account of the origin of their existence being intimately connected with eunuchism, being, in fact, an outgrowth of this condition; and any history of eunuchism would be but half told, without the additional information concerning these persons.

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