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- verb Present participle of
unman . - adjective That destroys
manly virtues or qualities; that renderseffeminate orhelpless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Actually Question, Hitler was very anti-Christian; one of the cornerstones of his ideology was to eventually do away with Christianity as he saw it as an offshoot of Jewish culture and thus" unmanning "the Aryan races." "" "wrong once again ... read a bit more"
unknown title 2009
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"Actually Question, Hitler was very anti-Christian; one of the cornerstones of his ideology was to eventually do away with Christianity as he saw it as an offshoot of Jewish culture and thus" unmanning "the Aryan races.
unknown title 2009
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Such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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One of the people that I met was senior Bush administration official who had this to say about our unmanning of war, quote, "It plays to our strength. the thing that scares people is our technology" but when you go out and meet with people, for example in Lebanon, it's a very different story.
PW Singer on military robots and the future of war P.W. Singer 2009
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One of the people that I met was senior Bush administration official who had this to say about our unmanning of war, quote, "It plays to our strength. the thing that scares people is our technology" but when you go out and meet with people, for example in Lebanon, it's a very different story.
PW Singer on military robots and the future of war P.W. Singer 2009
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Once he had assured himself that his wife and son were safe and relatively unscathed, Carmine banished the awful helplessness, the unmanning knowledge that Desdemona had had to save herself.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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One of the people that I met was senior Bush administration official who had this to say about our unmanning of war, quote, "It plays to our strength. the thing that scares people is our technology" but when you go out and meet with people, for example in Lebanon, it's a very different story.
PW Singer on military robots and the future of war P.W. Singer 2009
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And, truly, that was the most unmanning aspect of being a forlorn, love-crossed idiot-he'd gone from having earth-shattering, bone-jarring, back-clawing sex with a women he adored to nothing.
Hot For Him Mayberry, Sarah 2007
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Such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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And now, just as I'm finding some depths of kindness within me (depths that are bounded by a bottomless, unmanning dread), suddenly I can't write.
Lost 2004
Louises commented on the word unmanning
I loved her before, and so I had, the woman. But this was the monster and the monster was magnificent. I got an unmanning glimpse of the depth of my capacity for worship, drew back from it as from the edge of a cold-aired chasm. She saw that, too, and sent me, it's the same for me, don't you see? From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 18, 2012