Verb - to deprive a person of the characteristics or qualities traditionally associated with him/her sex
Frequency: 1
Here are all of the speeches where unsex shows up across the corpus:
Give
him
tending
.
He
brings
great
news
.
The
raven
himself
is
hoarse
That
croaks
the
fatal
entrance
of
Duncan
Under
my
battlements
.
Come
,
you
spirits
That
tend
on
mortal
thoughts
,
unsex
me
here
,
And
fill
me
from
the
crown
to
the
toe
top-full
Of
direst
cruelty
.
Make
thick
my
blood
.
Stop
up
th’
access
and
passage
to
remorse
,
That
no
compunctious
visitings
of
nature
Shake
my
fell
purpose
,
nor
keep
peace
between
Th’
effect
and
it
.
Come
to
my
woman’s
breasts
And
take
my
milk
for
gall
,
you
murd’ring
ministers
,
Wherever
in
your
sightless
substances
You
wait
on
nature’s
mischief
.
Come
,
thick
night
,
And
pall
thee
in
the
dunnest
smoke
of
hell
,
That
my
keen
knife
see
not
the
wound
it
makes
,
Nor
heaven
peep
through
the
blanket
of
the
dark
To
cry
Hold
,
hold
!
Great
Glamis
,
worthy
Cawdor
,
Greater
than
both
by
the
all-hail
hereafter
!
Thy
letters
have
transported
me
beyond
This
ignorant
present
,
and
I
feel
now
The
future
in
the
instant
.