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Paternalize vs Paternalized - What's the difference?

paternalize | paternalized |

As verbs the difference between paternalize and paternalized

is that paternalize is to make paternal; to place in a fatherly role while paternalized is past tense of paternalize.

paternalize

English

Verb

(paternaliz)
  • To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
  • * 1912 , Edith M Phelps, Selected Articles on Government Ownership of the Telegraph
  • To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...
  • control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them
  • paternalized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (paternalize)

  • paternalize

    English

    Verb

    (paternaliz)
  • To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
  • * 1912 , Edith M Phelps, Selected Articles on Government Ownership of the Telegraph
  • To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...
  • control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them