Meanings
nouneviration (uncountable)
- archaichistoricaluncountableEmasculation; effeminacy.
Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.
1995, Gary Kates, Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman, BasicBooks, page 170
Origin
- Latineviratio
- Englisheviration
Latin eviratio.
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