eunuchism

English

Etymology

Latin eunuchismus (act of unmanning).

Noun

eunuchism (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being a eunuch.
    • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy
      Again, that Eunuchism (not in itself, but) for the Kingdom of Heaven, is better than it, we doubt not.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eunuchism in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)


Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French eunuchisme.

Noun

eunuchism n (uncountable)

  1. eunuchism

Declension

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