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incestualize en · VERB

Etymology

From incestual + -ize.

Meanings

1. (rare) To make incestual
   • 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.
   • 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. 2006, Jill Scharff, New Paradigms for Treating Relationships, Volume 13, page 74
   • ... discusses the unresolved oedipal conflicts that occur when parents incestualize their interactions with their children. 2011, Jillmarie Murphy, Monstrous Kinships, page 40
   • It is true in this case that it doesn't matter whether Beth Winters was sexually assaulted or incestualized by her father. 1984, Milton Silverman, Open and Shut, Page 324
   • 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.

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