incestualize

English

Alternative forms

• incestualise

Etymology

incestual +‎ -ize

Verb

incestualize (third-person singular simple present incestualizes, present participle incestualizing, simple past and past participle incestualized)

1. (rare) To make incestual
   • 1984, Milton Silverman, Open and Shut, Page 324

     It is true in this case that it doesn't matter whether Beth Winters was sexually assaulted or incestualized by her father.

   • 1985, S Peterfreund, Between desire and nostalgia: Intertextuality in Shelley's Alastor and two shorter poems from the Alastor volume, link

     The object of the vision is successively sexualized, incestualized, made into an originary source and presence, and lost.

   • 1994, A Alison, Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture, link

     The maturing of her son as a student justifies not only the incestualizing of the mother-son bond but also the sexualizing of the woman/mother.

   • 2006, Jill Scharff, New Paradigms for Treating Relationships, Volume 13, page 74

     Eolo complains that Maria has "incestualized" her relationship with their son, and in the next breath invites her to go with him to Jamaica, a free and exciting land.

   • 2011, Jillmarie Murphy, Monstrous Kinships, page 40

     ... discusses the unresolved oedipal conflicts that occur when parents incestualize their interactions with their children.