| 单词 | father-substitute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfather-substitute father-substitute n. [after German Vatersurrogat (see father-surrogate n.)] originally Psychology a person who becomes the object of emotions which are usually directed towards a father; a person who stands in for, or assumes the emotional role of, a father. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > father-substitute father-surrogate1916 father-substitute1917 1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method x. 250 Heine's distinguished father-substitute [Ger. Vatersurrogat], the uncle,..would have preferred to behave as a stranger toward the poorly clad poet. 1938 F. L. Lucas Delights of Dictatorship ii. 46 The hysteria that can find in the Head of that State [sc. the U.S.S.R.] a dream-husband, a father-substitute,..a God. 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West vi. 156 He had almost detached himself from Mother... Transference to a father-substitute was plainly the next stage. 2008 J. Updike Widows of Eastwick i. 4 The four stepchildren..she saddled him with couldn't have asked for a calmer, more soothingly taciturn father-substitute. < as lemmas |
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