What is the difference between emasculate and masculine?
emasculate | masculine |
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
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Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
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Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
# (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
# (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
(grammar) The masculine gender.
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(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
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That which is masculine.
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A man.
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Masculine is a derived term of emasculate.
As adjectives the difference between emasculate and masculine
is that emasculate is deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak while masculine is of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.As a verb emasculate
is to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.As a noun masculine is
the masculine gender.emasculate
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Verb
(emasculat)- Luxury had not emasculated their minds.
masculine
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(wikipedia masculine)Alternative forms
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(en adjective)- Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
- “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
- That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
- a masculine church.
- The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German.
- German uses the masculine of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''.