unsexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsɛks/

動詞

unsex (三人称単数 現在形 unsexes, 現在分詞 unsexing, 過去形および過去分詞形 unsexed)

1. To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:

     Lady Macbeth: Come, you spirits
     That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
     And fill me from the crown to the toe full
     Of direst cruelty:

   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 1, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 213819910:

     The Amazon cut off a breat to battle: How will not Woman disfigure and unsex herself to gain her end?

   • c. 1920–1925 [458 BC], Geoffrey Montague Cookson (translator), Agamemnon, translation of original by Aeschylus:

     The Sea-king, Ravisher of Ilium
     Knows not her false and slavering tongue, thrust out,
     Lewd bitch, to lick and fawn and smile and be
     The secret soul of unforgiving hell!
     Dare it, She-devil! Unsex thyself, and be His murderess!

   • 1935 April, William Faulkner, “Skirmish at Sartoris”, in The Unvanquished, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1938, OCLC 1080149991; republished in The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, October 1991, →ISBN, section 1, page 189:

     […] she had expected the worst ever since Drusilla had deliberately tried to unsex herself by refusing to feel any natural grief at the death in battle not only of her affianced husband but of her own father […]