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Webster 1913 Edition


Unsex

Un-sex′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Unsexed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Unsexing
.]
[1st pref.
un-
+
sex
.]
To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one’s sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like;
as, to
unsex
a woman
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unsex

UNSEX'

,
Verb.
T.
To deprive of the sex, or to make otherwise than the sex commonly is.

Definition 2024


unsex

unsex

English

Verb

unsex (third-person singular simple present unsexes, present participle unsexing, simple past and past participle unsexed)

  1. To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
    • 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene V:
      Lady Macbeth: "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe full / Of direst cruelty:"
  2. To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

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