paternalize
verbEtymology From paternal + -ize.
1
To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
- To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...1912, Edith M Phelps, Selected Articles on Government Ownership of the Telegraph:
2
control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them
- Derived terms
- paternalizer