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bastardization

noun

Etymology

From bastard + -ization.

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻ — “to tie, bind”
  2. derived from *banstuz✻ — “bond, connection, relationship, marriage with a second woman of lower status”
  3. derived from *bāst✻ — “marriage, relationship”
  4. derived from bastardus
  5. derived from bastard
  6. inherited from bastard
  7. inherited from bastard
  8. suffixed as bastardization — “bastard + ization”

Definitions

  1. The making of a bastard or bastards

    The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.

    • Our conclusion is not founded on the traditional arguments against bastardization: the social stigma imposed on the child and the financial burden imposed on the state.
    • The flimsy bastardization of the princes was a flagrant violation of a cherished medieval principle, the right of inheritance.

  2. The creation of offspring from two different species

    The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.

  3. The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding

    The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.

    • This is a basis for a natural, even though slow, process of regeneration, which gradually eliminates racial poisonings as long as a basic stock of racially pure elements is still present and a further bastardization does not take place.
    • It is emphasized that the subject of bastardization in man is one of the most fundamental of anthropological questions and one which has hitherto not received its due quota of attention.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.

      • And, hang on a sec, isn't bastardisation a bastardisation of language anyhow?
      • Q-Tip was a bastardization of cotton-tip, very much a bastardization.

    2. The creation of an inferior copy or version

      The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.

      • This may include the bastardization or demolition of a building that no longer has a community to serve it or where its builders lack the economic or political power to resist threatening 'regeneration' or 'improvement plans'.
      • It was an hour of bastardization of fine music that I suppose delighted the folks in Cedar Rapids and Buffalo.

    3. Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a…

      Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

      • However, when one looks at defence force during history and around the world one can identify bullying which can also be known as 'hazing' or 'bastardization'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bastardization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA