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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 womanWebster 1828 Edition
Unsex
UNSEX'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
unsex
unsex
English
Verb
unsex (third-person singular simple present unsexes, present participle unsexing, simple past and past participle unsexed)
- 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:"
- 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene V:
- To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.