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Definition of Matronizing
1. matronize [v] - See also: matronize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matronizing
Literary usage of Matronizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopaedia of Social Usage: Manners and Customs of the Twentieth Century by Helen Lefferts Roberts (1913)
"If he has no mother, married sister, aunt, or woman cousin on whom he can call
for the matronizing service, he must then select for the post a matron friend ..."
2. Putnam's Handbook of Etiquette: A Cyclopaedia of Social Usage, Giving by Helen Lefferts Roberts (1913)
"If he has no mother, married sister, aunt, or woman cousin on whom he can call
for the matronizing service, he must then select for the post a matron friend ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1872)
"The hulk of the matronizing is done by comparatively few young married ladies.
each ot whom will take charge of any number of girls who report themselves to ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"But I have learned since, and learned too what sort of morality it glosses with
its matronizing and chaperoning ; how the heartless and frivolous and false ..."
5. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"AH these accommodation n afforded to the matronizing part of the community are
the result of long and deep thought on the part of the managers. ..."
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