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"text": "In regard to the Teeth, page 30, Dr. Redfield remarks to me, that hte upper incisors depict in man, not the social faculties of friendship and ambition, but those of familism or parentism, whose very strong development is first observed in early childhood, in the love of pets and dolls — playing at father and mother, especially in little girls.",
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"ref": "1975, G. Janet Tulloch, A Home is Not a Home: Life Within a Nursing Home, page 34",
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"ref": "1989, Iain Chalmers, Murray Enkin, Marc J. N. C. Keirse, Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Pregnancy, page 157",
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"ref": "1998, Sun Myung Moon, Earthly Life and Spirit World I-II, page 153",
"text": "Therefore, democracy is brotherhoodism. After the end of brotherhoodism, parentism will emerge.",
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"ref": "2009, Jimmy Greaves, Greavsie: The Autobiography, page 1608",
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"ref": "2010, Melissa Howell, Greg Howell, Fusion: Where You and God Connect, page 147",
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"ref": "2010, Rebecca D. Snyder, Sittin' Like a Queen on a Throne",
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"ref": "2011, Nicole Johnson, It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?:, page 14",
"text": "Some parentisms are funny, like, \"If you poke your eye out, don't come crying to me!\" And did you ever think about the fact that you can't poke your eye out.? Really. You can only poke it in.",
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"text": "In regard to the Teeth, page 30, Dr. Redfield remarks to me, that hte upper incisors depict in man, not the social faculties of friendship and ambition, but those of familism or parentism, whose very strong development is first observed in early childhood, in the love of pets and dolls — playing at father and mother, especially in little girls.",
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"ref": "1975, G. Janet Tulloch, A Home is Not a Home: Life Within a Nursing Home, page 34",
"text": "Joady would joke in an attempt to escape Susan's image of parentism, although she knew all of their differing tactics were intended as loving nudges to keep Gerda from \"declining.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Iain Chalmers, Murray Enkin, Marc J. N. C. Keirse, Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Pregnancy, page 157",
"text": "Childbirth educators can also suffer from parentism, deciding what is best for their clients.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1998, Sun Myung Moon, Earthly Life and Spirit World I-II, page 153",
"text": "Therefore, democracy is brotherhoodism. After the end of brotherhoodism, parentism will emerge.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, R Knight, “Should patients get the treatment they want?”, in Practical Neurology",
"text": "Elements of ‘parentism’ are necessary and powerful elements of clinical practice.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The assumption of a parental role in the context of a relationship other than the parent-child relationship."
],
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"role",
"role"
]
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"tags": [
"countable",
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]
},
{
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"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Jimmy Greaves, Greavsie: The Autobiography, page 1608",
"text": "By far the most bewildering parentism was heard when I tried something dangerous, such as walking along a wall. 'Get down off that wall,' my mum would say, 'or there's going to be a crying match.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Melissa Howell, Greg Howell, Fusion: Where You and God Connect, page 147",
"text": "\"Because I said so\" has got to be the absolute worst parentism on the planet, and a sorry, lame excuse for an answer as well.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Rebecca D. Snyder, Sittin' Like a Queen on a Throne",
"text": "I couldn't believe that I actually used a parentism on my sweet baby boy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Nicole Johnson, It's Us: How Can I Sort Out the Issues of My Family Life?:, page 14",
"text": "Some parentisms are funny, like, \"If you poke your eye out, don't come crying to me!\" And did you ever think about the fact that you can't poke your eye out.? Really. You can only poke it in.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A cliché used by parents with their children."
],
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"(countable) A cliché used by parents with their children."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"word": "parentism"
}
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