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eunuchism

noun

Etymology

Latin eunuchismus (“act of unmanning”), equivalent to eunuch + -ism.

  1. derived from εὐνοῦχος
  2. derived from eunūchus
  3. derived from eunuque
  4. inherited from eunuk
  5. formed as eunuchism — “eunuch + -ism”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being a eunuch.

    • Again, that Eunuchism (not in itself, but) for the Kingdom of Heaven, is better than it, we doubt not.
    • A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.

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