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emasculatingly

emasculatingly adverb: so as to emasculate.

Adverb

emasculatingly (comparative more emasculatingly, superlative most emasculatingly)

  1. So as to emasculate.
    • 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.1998, Deborah Vlock, Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, page 35
    • "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.2016, Andrew Mitchell, Furious Tales

Forms of emasculatingly

comparativemore emasculatingly
superlativemost emasculatingly

Origin of emasculatingly

From emasculating + -ly.

Questions about emasculatingly

What does emasculatingly mean?
Emasculatingly means so as to emasculate.
What part of speech is emasculatingly?
Emasculatingly is an adverb.

Words near emasculatingly in the dictionary

  1. emasculate
  2. emasculated
  3. emasculates
  4. emasculateth
  5. emasculating
  6. emasculatingly
  7. emasculation
  8. emasculations
  9. emasculative
  10. emasculator
  11. emasculators

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