单词 | maternalize |
释义 | maternalizev. rare. 1. intransitive. To employ methods associated with mothers or motherhood.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > be a mother [verb (transitive)] > endow with motherly qualities maternalize1878 maternize1890 1878 T. Sinclair Mount 296 Comte and ‘George Eliot’ would methodise, paternalise, and maternalise, till there would be nothing at all wrong in their curious Eden. 2. transitive. To make maternal; to endow with motherly qualities. ΚΠ 1992 F. Pfeil in Postmodern Culture (Electronic text) 2 No. 3 Men controlled and ran the public sphere while women, desexualized and maternalized, were relegated to hearth and home. 1996 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Gender Stud. Dec. 143 Many of the ‘cyborg films’ of the eighties insistently maternalise the technological. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1878 |
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