maternalize

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English

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Etymology

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From maternal +‎ -ize.

Verb

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maternalize (third-person singular simple present maternalizes, present participle maternalizing, simple past and past participle maternalized)

  1. (transitive) To make maternal.
    • 2003, Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century:
      Women's professional status is frequently mediated by overt efforts to "beautify" or maternalize them, or both.