1955 J. H. Bunzel Amer. Small Businessman ii. 27 It was felt such paternalizing would corrupt men's souls by making them more dependent on others and less enthusiastic about the value of hard work.

1969 Language 45 496 Foreign translators..often have a bias in favor of the receptor language and may overdo the extent of functional equivalence, sometimes..as the result of unconscious paternalizing.

1999 National Catholic Rep. (Nexis) 7 May 2 Between tears and 16-year-old paternalizing of 14-year-olds, I picked up the smelly sneakers other mothers won't be able to bear to even see.

1942 A. Vagts in Jrnl. Mod. Hist 14 108 He has shared and confirmed the self-satisfied convictions of Prussian officialdom about itself, that it was ‘well-intentioned, though also perhaps paternalizing’ in its attempts ‘to uphold the old Prussian tradition’.

1965 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 24 141/2 One's own questionable rationale is habitually hidden behind screens of paternalizing leniency regarding the supposed errors of others.

1994 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 11 Dec. (Arts section) 10 A last-minute clinch with her paternalizing suitor, the affable immigrant Professor Bhaer, guarantees that her freedom is to be short-lived.