incestualize

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verb

To make incestual

Scrabble 23

Meanings

verbincestualize (third-person singular simple present incestualizes, present participle incestualizing, simple past and past participle incestualized)

present singular third person incestualizes · participle present incestualizing · participle past incestualized · past incestualized · alternative incestualise

  1. rareTo make incestual

    1994, A Alison, Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture, link The maturing of her son as a student justifies not only the incestualizing of the mother-son bond but also the sexualizing of the woman/mother.

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    It is true in this case that it doesn't matter whether Beth Winters was sexually assaulted or incestualized by her father.

    1984, Milton Silverman, Open and Shut, Page 324

    1985, S Peterfreund, Between desire and nostalgia: Intertextuality in Shelley's Alastor and two shorter poems from the Alastor volume, link The object of the vision is successively sexualized, incestualized, made into an originary source and presence, and lost.

    Eolo complains that Maria has "incestualized" her relationship with their son, and in the next breath invites her to go with him to Jamaica, a free and exciting land.

    2006, Jill Scharff, New Paradigms for Treating Relationships, Volume 13, page 74

    ... discusses the unresolved oedipal conflicts that occur when parents incestualize their interactions with their children.

    2011, Jillmarie Murphy, Monstrous Kinships, page 40

Origin

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