eunuchism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of eunuchism
Example Sentences
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O thou of mighty arms, I am not truly one of the neuter sex, but I have adopted this vow of eunuchism from subservience to another's will and from desire of religious merit.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
The history of eunuchism is lost in antiquity.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
From her epoch, eunuchism has become an inseparable attendant on Oriental despotism, and has so continued to the present day.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
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.”
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
Related to acquired eunuchism is the condition of eunuchoidism, the eunuchs which were so born from their mother's womb.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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