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masochistic, a.|mæsəˈkɪstɪk|
Also (erron.) masso-.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, resembling or characterized by masochism.
1904G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 112 Women may acquire a Massochistic love of violence and pain for the ideal of pleasure. 1928Music & Lett. July 125 The almost masochistic melancholy of the average fox-trot. 1958Essays & Stud. XI. 65 The very energy of the style is masochistic—a tormenting awareness of its own impotence to do, or change, anything. 1959Times 30 Sept. 13/5 Eighteenth-century patrons seemed to take a masochistic delight in seeing themselves lampooned on the stage. 1974[see masochism].
Hence ˌmasoˈchistically adv., in a masochistic manner.
1936Times Lit. Suppl. 18 July 597/2 Minor Canons speak of themselves masochistically as ‘mere’ minor canons. 1947S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! (1949) vii. 87 Masochistically allowing chickens to peck at our bare tootsies. |