bastardization

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Given the serious and long-lasting effects of bastardization, resolution of the paternity issue should be accomplished with the active participation of the court, rather than involvement that is limited to reviewing a previously-executed document.”

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

   “. It is remarkable that no less than 4 specimens (309, 345, 348, 357) from the area of bastardization show formation of eumelanin in numerous of the throat feathers instead of, as was to expected, phaeomelanin. Most probably this phenomenon too is attributable to bastardization.”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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?”

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

   “In this manner they viewed traditional aspects of civilization as parts of the legitimate identity of a culture. Consequently, they could interpret religion as one meaningful way for each culture to deal with external reality rather than as a superstitious bastardization of reason.”

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

   “The 'inspiration' for Dogs are Barking, Taylor avers, came from reading Coulthard-Clarke's history of Royal Military College, Duntroon, with its accounts of bastardization at the college, and from the author's experience of hearing fellow-officers reminisce about bastardization at the college.”