maternalize en · VERB
Etymology
From maternal + -ize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make maternal.
Women's professional status is frequently mediated by overt efforts to "beautify" or maternalize them, or both.
2003, Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| maternalizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| maternalized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| maternalized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| maternalizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |