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Definition of Masculinize

1. Verb. Give a masculine appearance or character to. "Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"

2. Verb. Produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy. "The drugs masculinized the teenage girl"

Definition of Masculinize

1. Verb. (transitive) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Masculinize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Masculinize

masculineness masculines masculinisation masculinise masculinised masculinises masculinising masculinism masculinisms masculinist

masculinists masculinities masculinity masculinize (current term) masculinized masculinizes masculinizing masculinus masculism masculisms

masculist masculists masculy masdar masdevallia mase mased

Literary usage of Masculinize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"The converse operation on a female tends to masculinize her ; she becomes large like the male and exhibits the pugnacious character of the latter. ..."

2. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"... in her famous white waistcoats in the form of a shirt-front, she has perhaps introduced a certain feature which tends to masculinize her dress. ..."

3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1877)
"... and brutalize, and degrade the character of woman, as we surely shall if we masculinize it for the sake of adding to the number of preachers. ..."

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