maternalize

verb

maternalize

verb

Etymology From maternal + -ize.

1

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:

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