What does unsex mean?

Definitions for unsex
ʌnˈsɛksun·sex

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unsexverb

    deprive of sex or sexual powers

  2. unsexverb

    remove the qualities typical of one's sex

    "She unsexed herself"

  3. sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fixverb

    make infertile

    "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"

Wiktionary

  1. unsexverb

    To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics

  2. unsexverb

    To sterilize

  3. unsexverb

    To castrate

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Unsexverb

    To make otherways than the sex commonly is.

    All you spirits
    That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
    And fill me, from the crown to th’ toe, top full
    Of direct cruelty. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

ChatGPT

  1. unsex

    Unsex refers to the act of depriving or stripping someone of their sexual identity or attributes, often in the context of desiring the person to be free of the characteristics or behaviors typically associated with their biological sex. This term was famously used in Shakespeare's Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth prayed to be "unsexed" so she can commit brutal deeds without the perceived weakness associated with her gender.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unsexverb

    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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unsex

    un-seks′, v.t. to deprive of sex: to make unmanly or unwomanly.—adj. Unsex′ual.

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  1. nexus

  2. nexûs

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsex in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsex in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of unsex in a Sentence

  1. Andy Warhol:

    Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.


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