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- noun Plural form of
eunuch .
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Examples
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Not all hijras undergo emasculation, and the percentage of hijras that are eunuchs is unknown.
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Daniel 1: 3, 6-11, 18, although it must be granted that some married persons, that had children, were sometimes called eunuchs, in a general acceptation for courtiers, on account that so many of the ancient courtiers were real eunuchs.
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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The use of eunuchs is of high antiquity, both in Asia and Egypt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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While some transvestites and transsexuals identify as eunuchs, most are men born with deformed genitals, who undergo castration-like operations, while others are effeminate boys disowned by families who must earn their keep through begging.
India To Offer Eunuchs Special Pension Each Month The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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While some transvestites and transsexuals identify as eunuchs, most are men born with deformed genitals, who undergo castration-like operations, while others are effeminate boys disowned by families who must earn their keep through begging.
India To Offer Eunuchs Special Pension Each Month Curtis M. Wong 2010
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While some transvestites and transsexuals identify as eunuchs, most are men born with deformed genitals, who undergo castration-like operations, while others are effeminate boys disowned by families who must earn their keep through begging.
India To Offer Eunuchs Special Pension Each Month Curtis M. Wong 2010
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While some transvestites and transsexuals identify as eunuchs, most are men born with deformed genitals, who undergo castration-like operations, while others are effeminate boys disowned by families who must earn their keep through begging.
India To Offer Eunuchs Special Pension Each Month The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Thereupon the old man called his eunuchs and women, saying,
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They become what's known as eunuchs in the religion.
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Those critics who scrupled too much about words he called eunuchs of literature, and to one, who taxed him with writing obscure language in questionable grammar, he said, "Thou art but a Gretna-green match-maker between vowels and consonants!"] 'Twas where the birch and sounding thong are ply'd,
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