eviration
(ɛvɪˈreɪʃən)
[ad. L. ēvirātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvirāre: see evirate v.]
The action of depriving of virility; the state of being deprived of virility; emasculation. Also fig.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1232 They had saved the children of Greeks from eviration. 1654 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 122 The wrong which had been done him in his eviration. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Eviration, a gelding, an unmanning; also making effeminate. |
| fig. 1829 Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 51 If he could recover his senses under a worse and more shameful eviration. |