phallogocentricadj.
/faˌlɒɡəˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /fæˌlɑɡəˈsɛntrɪk/, /fæˌlɔɡəˈsɛntrɪk/, /fæˌloʊɡəˈsɛntrɪk/ In post-structuralist, esp. feminist, theory: characterized by phallogocentrism; designating, relating to, or based upon the implicit communication of phallocentrism in or through language.
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1975 W. Domingo et al. tr. J. Derrida in Yale French Stud. No. 52. 92 The treatment of animality, as of everything which is submitted by a hierarchical opposition, has always revealed, in the history of (humanist and phallogocentric) metaphysics the obscurantist resistance.
1987 A. A. Munich in P. Yaeger et al. Refiguring Father xiv. 291 The mother's conveying of power is conditional; the sword is symbolic of her authority, only interpreted as phallic in a phallogocentric culture, which cannot otherwise figure this kind of maternal authority.
1999 M. Bracher Writing Cure 33 As feminists have pointed out, many men (and some women) apparently get a form of phallic satisfaction from various aspects of phallogocentric writing. The most obvious is writing that is overly forceful and penetrating.
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- to sail all in one ship
- to sail by the log
- to sail close to the wind
- to sail down
- to sail for guam
- to sail foreign
- to sail in
- to sail in the same boat
- to sail near the wind
- to sail on another board
- to sail over
- to sail through, out
- to sail under false colours
- to sail with every shift of wind
- to sail with every wind
- to sale
- to sally out
- to salt away
- to salt down
- to salt in
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- to salve a sore
- to salve over
- to salve the phenomena