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maternalized

maternalized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about maternalized

What is maternalized the simple past and past participle of?
Maternalized is the simple past and past participle of maternalize.

Words near maternalized in the dictionary

  1. maternalistically
  2. maternalists
  3. maternality
  4. maternalization
  5. maternalize
  6. maternalized
  7. maternalizes
  8. maternalizing
  9. maternall
  10. maternally
  11. maternalness

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