emasculatingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From emasculating + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]emasculatingly (comparative more emasculatingly, superlative most emasculatingly)
- So as to emasculate.
- 1998, Deborah Vlock, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, page 35:
- Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of "duty" at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.
- 2016, Andrew Mitchell, Furious Tales:
- "By whom?" Elspeth demanded in a tone so emasculatingly terrifying every Y chromosome in ear shot grafted on an extra leg in desperate hope not to be noticed.