eunuchs in English

noun
1
a man who has been castrated, especially (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court.
The Emperor of China would employ eunuchs , castrated men, as guards and servants in his Palace.

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1. + 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs on account of the Kingdom of the heavens.

2. For there are eunuchs that were born such from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs that were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs that have made themselves eunuchs on account of the kingdom of the heavens.

3. The eunuchs lived outside the Harem

4. What consoling words does Jehovah address to physical eunuchs?

5. His concubines were looked after by the palace eunuchs.

6. Longing for my destiny to come surrounded by all eunuchs

7. Yet today eunuchs have apparently died out everywhere except in the subcontinent.

8. So I've always wondered... do eunuchs have a phantom cock?

9. The Concubines’ activities were generally overseen and monitored by the powerful eunuchs

10. Eunuchs are not plagued with acne, for acne is triggered by the male or androgenic hormones.

11. Only a short time ago, she lived enclosed with in forbidding walls guarded by fearsome black eunuchs

12. Like Dargah Quli Khan's friend Taqi, the figures in the rickshaw were all eunuchs.

13. Isaiah prophetically addressed literal eunuchs in his day, who would have a limited share in Israelite worship.

14. + 4 When Esther’s female attendants and her eunuchs came in and told her, the queen was deeply distressed.

15. Of the four eunuchs waiting outside the door, Trinket was unable to recognize a single one.

16. 20 In Asia, boys were castrated in order to make them harem guards ( so - called eunuchs ).

17. Scholar-officials lost prominence in administration as eunuchs became intermediaries between the aloof emperor and his officials; any senior official who wanted to discuss state matters had to persuade powerful eunuchs with a bribe simply to have his demands or message relayed to the emperor.

18. And there, behind Emperor Xian, in his crowd of ministers and eunuchs, I saw Mu Shun again.

19. (During this 896-899 term as chancellor, it was said that Cui secretly plotted with the emperor to slaughter the eunuchs.

20. 20 The list of luminary eunuchs also includes Cai Lun (60-(Sentencedict.com), who is revered in China as the inventor of paper.

21. Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own "Alans" and her eunuchs, who had been instigated by Isaac Komnenos.

22. "EUNUCHS AND Castrati" is a very recommendable book for everyone who is interested in history, religion, ethnologia, sexologia, various cultures of the world, etc

23. The Aghas of The Haramlek Eunuchs in the service of the women of the sultans The Ottoman sultans did their best to satisfy their sordid desires and endless lusts

24. Around the end of the maritime voyages, the civil government gained the upper hand within the state bureaucracy, while the eunuchs gradually fell out of favor after the death of the Yongle Emperor.

25. For example, the eunuchs Hegai and Shaashgaz served as guardians of the wives and concubines of Persian King Ahasuerus, who is thought to be Xerxes I. —Esther 2:3, 14.

26. 16 He had the mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing a Raphael in a heap of daubs.

27. His priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis and castration.Attis was also a Phrygian god of vegetation.In his self-mutilation, death and resurrection he represents the fruits of the earth which die in winter

28. 13 The sect of the Essenes shared with the Hellenistic Puritans who followed Pythagoras in believing “not only the dualistic doctrine of body and soul, but the striving for bodily purity, the practice of ablutions, the rejection of blood offerings, the encouragement of celibacy [becoming in effect eunuchs].”

29. The Battle of Alexandretta was the first clash between the forces of the Byzantine Empire and the Fatimid Caliphate in Syria.It was fought in early 971 near Alexandretta, while the main Fatimid army was besieging Antioch, which the Byzantines had captured two years previously.The Byzantines, led by one of Emperor John I Tzimiskes' household eunuchs, lured a 4,000-strong Fatimid detachment to