"unwoman" meaning in English

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      "form": "unwomaned",
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      "form": "unwomaned",
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      "form": "unwomanned",
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          "ref": "1863, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 21, in Salem Chapel, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 22",
          "text": "Not all her anxiety for Arthur, not all her personal wretchedness, could unwoman the minister’s mother so much as to make her forgive or overlook Phœbe’s presumption.",
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          "ref": "1972, Pearl S. Buck, “Thoughts of a Woman at Christmas”, in Once Upon a Christmas, New York: John Day, page 115",
          "text": "He says I am not feminine, that I act like a man, that I’m too aggressive. I say that he unwomans me, because he doesn’t do the man’s work in the home, and I have to—somebody has to! […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Susan Yankowitz, Silent Witness, New York: Knopf, Part Three, p. 141",
          "text": "The muslin dress unwomans her, a crude navy blue […] which buttons at the nape of her neck and drops past her knees in stiff irregular folds. Oh it hangs, it hangs, sack bag barrel. Even her waist is not hugged by it and there are no darts in consideration of her breasts.",
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          "ref": "2010 August 18, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature, Duke University Press, page 10",
          "text": "To make historical sense of these writers' continual struggle with womanness, consider more closely how unwomaning did and did not work under chattel slavery. […] pregnant workers received no differential treatment, and slave motherhood was not (as Spillers finds in North America) a way for females to become women. [<span title=\"[...] imperial narratives insisted that ungendering preceded slavery […] this machinery of violent unwomaning was never abandoned.\">…]",
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        "To deprive of feminine qualities, or of the status of womanhood; to unsex."
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        "(transitive) To deprive of feminine qualities, or of the status of womanhood; to unsex."
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          "text": "To make historical sense of these writers' continual struggle with womanness, consider more closely how unwomaning did and did not work under chattel slavery. […] pregnant workers received no differential treatment, and slave motherhood was not (as Spillers finds in North America) a way for females to become women. [<span title=\"[...] imperial narratives insisted that ungendering preceded slavery […] this machinery of violent unwomaning was never abandoned.\">…]",
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        "(transitive) To deprive of feminine qualities, or of the status of womanhood; to unsex."
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