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eunuch

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1. eunuch - Noun

2. eunuch - Verb

Meaning

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

Alt. of Eunuchate

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. John Braine

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger. Ronald Firbank

This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write. Germaine Greer

To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman. Hindi Proverb

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