Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-MAN'
UN-MAL'LE-A-BLEUN-MAN'AGE-A-BLE
UN-MAN', v.t.
- To deprive of the constitutional qualities of a human being, as reason, &c. South.
- To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
- To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
- To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or reduce into irresolution; to dishearten; to deject. Dryden. Pope.
- To dispeople; as, towns unmanned. Goldsmith.
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