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incestualize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make incestual

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Examples

  • 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.
  • 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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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From incestual + -ize.