hermaphroditize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hermaphrodite + -ize.
Verb
[edit]hermaphroditize (third-person singular simple present hermaphroditizes, present participle hermaphroditizing, simple past and past participle hermaphroditized)
- (transitive) To make hermaphrodite.
- 1972, John Money, Anke A. Ehrhardt, Man & Woman, Boy & Girl: The Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity, page 58:
- Some of them are known to masculinize or hermaphroditize the external genitalia of the female.
- 1997, Tom Winnifrith, Critical Essays on Emily Brontë, page 259:
- Male Romantic poets hermaphroditize themselves "to seize the Delphic powers of feminine receptivity," but a female artist in this tradition, "sexually advantaged by birth, must extend her imperial reach in the other direction, […]