What does unman mean?

Definitions for unman
ʌnˈmænun·man

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unmanverb

    cause to lose one's nerve

    "an unmanning experience"

Wiktionary

  1. unmanverb

    To castrate; to remove one's manhood.

  2. unmanverb

    To sap the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Unmanverb

    What, quite unmann’d in folly? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Gross errors unman, and strip them of the very principles of reason, and sober discourse. Robert South, Sermons.

    Her clamours pierce the Trojans ears,
    Unman their courage, and augment their fears. Dryden.

    Ulysses veil’d his pensive head;
    Again unman’d, a shower of sorrows shed. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. unman

    Professor Weston (full name Edward Rolles Weston) is a Satanic character in C. S. Lewis's The Space Trilogy. He is introduced in the trilogy's first book, Out of the Silent Planet (1938), as an eminent physicist who has invented space travel. He is defeated by the novel's protagonist Elwin Ransom on Mars (known to its inhabitants as "Malacandra"). Weston returns in the second book, in an attempt to wreak havoc on Venus (Perelandra), the "new Eden."

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  1. unman

    To unman means to deprive of masculine qualities, strengths, or spirit; to cause to feel weak or fearful, often used in emotional or psychological context. It can also refer to the process of removing men from a place or situation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unmanverb

    to deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like

  2. Unmanverb

    to emasculate; to deprive of virility

  3. Unmanverb

    to deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish

  4. Unmanverb

    to deprive of men; as, to unman a ship

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unman

    un-man′, v.t. to deprive of the powers of a man, as courage, virility, &c.: to deprive of men.—adj. Unman′like, not manlike.—n. Unman′liness, effeminacy.—adjs. Unman′ly, not becoming a man: unworthy of a noble mind: base: cowardly; Unmanned′, not manned or furnished with men: (Shak.) not tamed or made subject to man, maiden, virgin.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unman in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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