单词 | bastardizing |
释义 | bastardizingn. 1. The action of adulterating, corrupting, or debasing something; (also) the result of such an action. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] debatec1460 disparagement1486 embasement1575 digraduation1577 lessening1579 degraduation1581 disparagea1592 bastardizing1598 debasement1602 deplumation1611 depression1628 vilificationa1631 degradement1641 degrading1646 prostration1647 deprisure1648 embasure1656 embasing1659 debasure1683 degradationc1752 derogation1785 demotion1872 objectification1973 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration cauponation1531 sophistication1541 adulterating1581 bastarding1583 bastardizing1598 sophisticating1611 adultery1616 adulteration1626 adulterism1639 bastardization1650 compassing1669 contagion1695 doctoring1805 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Abbastardimento, a bastardizing, a degeneration. 1705 tr. Whole Art of Dying vi. 213 The bastardizing of good Dyes. 1891 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 17 Oct. From 1789 to 1873 no man of any party advocated the demonetizing and bastardizing of silver. 1909 Amer. Federationist Feb. 156/1 That decision is an outrage on justice and a bastardizing of our American institutions of free speech and free press. 2018 Independent (Nexis) 12 Feb. (Features section) 43 His shame at the bastardising of his talent for money. 2. The action of declaring or rendering a person illegitimate. Now chiefly historical.In quot. a1616: the fact or state of being conceived and born out of wedlock. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > illegitimacy > process of rendering illegitimate bastarding1548 bastardizing1611 bastardization1812 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 724/2 The bastardizing of his brethren. a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. ii. 130 Had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing [1608 bastardy]. 1872 Boston Daily Globe 7 June 5/7 He advocates the admission of Utah [to the United States] with a clause forbidding all future polygamous marriages, but opposing the bastardizing of children already born in such wedlock. 1908 Columbia Law Rev. 8 323 As the effect of a bastardizing of issue by a parent is clearly unfortunate, it should not be effectuated by untrustworthy testimony. 2010 P. Gregory Red Queen (2013) 256 I tell Lewis..to tell her..of the bastardizing of her sons, of the ruin of her name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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