[ad. L. ēvirātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvirāre: see EVIRATE v.] The action of depriving of virility; the state of being deprived of virility; emasculation. Also fig.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1232. They had saved the children of Greeks from eviration.
1654. Ussher, Ann., vi. (1658), 122. The wrong which had been done him in his eviration.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Eviration, a gelding, an unmanning; also making effeminate.
fig. 1829. Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), II. 51. If he could recover his senses under a worse and more shameful eviration.
