Defeminize

Word DEFEMINIZE
Character 10
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /diːˈfɛmɪnaɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Defeminize"

What do we mean by defeminize?

To divest of feminine traits, qualities, or characteristics. transitive verb

To deprive of feminine qualities and tastes; affect with masculine notions or a liking for mannish modes of life and pursuits or an aversion to domestic life.

To lose, or to remove feminine characteristics or qualities verb

Remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) verb

To lose, or to remove feminine characteristics or qualities

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The word "defeminize" in example sentences

You are correct in pointing out that in the frat-tastic jockocracy that is today's GOP, it is standard operating procedure to feminize male candidates and defeminize female candidates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Professional careers do not of themselves defeminize women, otherwise the Church would not have raised political women to sainthood, as was the case with St. Elizabeth and St. Clotilde. ❋ Unknown (2007)

No, I was just trying to speak what I thought might be in Rosie ` s mind, not what ` s in my mind, but, you know, to draw a mustache on a woman is to defeminize her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I interpret that as meaning that the individual who did this wanted to degrade her, defeminize her, show her that he was in total control. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Where women need none, men need two kinds of hormones: androgens from the testes to prompt the Wolffian duct into development, and a second substance, called Mullerian inhibiting hormone, to suppress the Mullerian duct and defeminize the male fetus. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Certainly, there are enough of idiotic friends and corrupters of woman among the learned asses of the masculine sex, who advise woman to defeminize herself in this manner, and to imitate all the stupidities from which "man" in Europe, European "manliness," suffers, -- who would like to lower woman to "general culture," indeed even to newspaper reading and meddling with politics. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

The closest we came was “defeminize”, but I’ve never heard that used as an insult. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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