eunuchism
nounEtymology Latin eunuchismus (“act of unmanning”), equivalent to eunuch + -ism.
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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.1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
- 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123: