WHAT IS GASLIGHT? 1. To cause (a person) to doubt his or her - TopicsExpress



          

WHAT IS GASLIGHT? 1. To cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation: How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you? 2. Light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas. 3. A gas burner or gas jet for producing this kind of light. 4. gaslit ( def 2 ). Quotes: My feeling is that he, Gable, and whoever else in this have been trying to gaslight the president. Why would anyone want to make my husband think hes lost his mind? -- Jeff Rovin, Divide and Conquer: Tom Clancys Op-Center, 2000 If Howard was more energetic and imaginative, I would suspect him of an elaborate plot to gaslight me. -- Katharine Weber, True Confections, 2010 Origin: Gaslight comes from a 1944 film of the same name in which a husband secretely and repeatedly dims and brightens the gaslights in the house while accusing his wife of imaginging the flickering. This movie was based on a play by Patrick Hamilton. The verb entered English in the mid-1900s.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:25:16 +0000

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