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maternalise

maternalise is the alternative spelling of maternalize.

Meaning of maternalize

Verb

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

  1. (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 of maternalise

third-person singular presentmaternalises
present participlematernalising
past participlematernalised
pastmaternalised

Questions about maternalise

What is maternalise the alternative spelling of?
Maternalise is the alternative spelling of maternalize.

Words near maternalise in the dictionary

  1. maternal orphans
  2. maternal uncle
  3. maternal uncles
  4. maternal wall
  5. maternalisation
  6. maternalise
  7. maternalised
  8. maternalises
  9. maternalising
  10. maternalism
  11. maternalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maternalise (page history and authors); maternalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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