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What does infantilise mean?

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Verb
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of infantilize.
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Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her.
Purists may complain that book illustrations infantilise children and stop them using their imaginations.
Why didn't they stop selling bagged fruit and veg, with their unnecessary use-by dates, which infantilise customers and make them throw away food that is perfectly edible?
To be classified as a child soldier guarantees some protection. However, this should not be a reason to free those classified as child soldiers from responsibility or to infantilise them.
This call to infantilise academic life is coupled with the demand to medicalise the problems of existence faced by young adults.
Faith communities often have a systemic propensity to infantilise people, fixed firmly in vulnerability rather than empowerment for human liberation.

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