English to French Meaning of unsex - faire perdre sa féminité

Unsex :

faire perdre sa féminité

← Unsettle

unshaken →

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Definitions of unsex in English

Verb(1) deprive of sex or sexual powers(2) remove the qualities typical of one's sex(3) make infertile

Examples of unsex in English

(1) Too much education was said in many circles to make girls less virtuous, even to unsex them.(2) She was hugely reviled as a ‘prostitute’ and ‘ unsex 'd female’.(3) Were women to ‘ unsex ’ themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.(4) Not even the Red Queen gets much of an opportunity to ‘ unsex ’ herself.(5) Lady Macbeth uses alcohol and Satan to ‘ unsex ’ her and make her strong.(6) She had the vocal range and presence that allow for a powerful delivery of the famous (and often studied to death in high school) ‘ unsex me now’ soliloquy.(7) Irish judges and juries did not insist on conformity to a feminine ideal of domestic submissiveness; a woman who fought back was not treated as having forfeited her right to legal recourse by ‘ unsexing ’ herself.(8) As Pat Griffen once asked, ‘Why is it that men are unsexed by failure and women by success?’(9) Her delivery of the scene in which Lady Macbeth unsexes herself to conspire with Macbeth in his becoming king was anti-climatic.(10) In his official report, Mills turned the speed at which women worked into a moral story about the dehumanizing, and unsexing , aspects of industry.

(1) unsettle ::

ébranler

Synonyms

Verb

2. sterilize ::

stériliser

3. fix ::

réparer

4. desexualize ::

désexualiser

5. desex ::

desex

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