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Etymology

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fetish +‎ -ise

Verb

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fetishise (third-person singular simple present fetishises, present participle fetishising, simple past and past participle fetishised)

  1. (chiefly British) Alternative spelling of fetishize
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.