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bastardization|ˌbɑːstədaɪˈzeɪʃən, -æ-|
[f. next; see -ation.]
The declaring or rendering bastard.
1818W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXVII. 534 The illegitimation, or bastardization, of the children of Edward IV. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIII. 763 Declaring wedlock to be a mere civil engagement..to the bastardization, one may almost say, of society.
▸ Intermingling or hybridization, the result of which is considered inferior; an instance of this; (also) the process or result of (esp. linguistic) corruption or adulteration.
1927M. Samuel tr. H. Keyserling World in Making 139 The Orient, where the adoption of the Occidental spirit has introduced a tremendous process of psychic bastardization, must pass through a long period of psychic, if not political, chaos. 1957New Yorker 14 Sept. 33/3 In language controls, the trend is toward bastardization. 1974J. Dowell Look-off Bear Pref. p. viii, The Micmacs (an English/French bastardization of their true name, Meegumaag). 1981J. Friedman Tales of Times Square (1993) 105 It is an economy-size, middle-class, bastardization of an Arabian sultan's orgy room. 2000J. Rogers in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 437/2 For Eliot, the empty ‘organ voice’ of his [sc. Milton's] long, Latinate verse paragraphs was a barbaric bastardization of normal human speech.
▸ Austral. colloq. (chiefly Mil.). In training or educational institutions: an initiation ritual involving the physical or psychological harassment of new cadets or students; bullying, victimization.
1964Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 22/2 Fourth class cadets suffer what is known as ‘bastardisation’. They have to listen to the 6.45 a.m. news and they may have to repeat this back at breakfast, item by item. 1972Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 27 Aug. 1 A brutal bastardisation ceremony at Australia's oldest public school has forced a boy to leave school. 1983Sydney Morning Herald 13 Apr. 1/3 Bastardisation, or the systematic hazing of junior cadets, has been back at Duntroon for 10 years. 2000Canberra Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. a3 Parliament has authorised an inquiry into allegations of bastardisation at the 3rd Royal Australian Regiment. |