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| 单词 | civilizade |
| 释义 | civilizaden. A crusade instigated or conducted to bring a group of people to a stage of development considered to be more advanced. ΚΠ 1856 T. T. Meadows Ess. Civilization ii, in Chinese & their Rebellions 543 I preach no Crusades against presumed Irreligions: but I do distinctly preach a Civilizade against an ascertained Barbarization. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iv. 166 A recent writer..proposes (to use his own words) not a crusade, but a civilizade, against this polygamous community, to put an end to what seems to him a retrograde step in civilization. 1986 K. Dixon Freedom & Equality i. 36 Mill writes of a suggestion that a ‘civilisade’ be conducted against the Mormon practice of polygamy. 2004 S. Flusty De-Coca-Colonization i. 27 The civilizade finds recent expression in the rhetorical justification for the seemingly never-ending aerial bombardments of Iraq. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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