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is unmanning

  • present progressive
    of unman (3rd person singular).
    unman
    verb (used with object)
    to deprive of courage or fortitude; break down the manly spirit of.

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Believe that the American climate is unmanning, or that one American whom you know is severely taxed by Lilliput labors.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle