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单词 civilizade
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civilizaden.

Brit. /ˌsɪvl̩ʌɪˈzeɪd/, /ˌsɪvᵻlʌɪˈzeɪd/, U.S. /ˌsɪvəlaɪˈzeɪd/
Forms: 1800s– civilizade, 1900s– civilisade.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: civilize v., -ade suffix.
Etymology: < civilize v. + -ade suffix, after crusade n.Quot. 1859 apparently refers to the use in quot. 1856, and quot. 1986 refers to the use in quot. 1859.
A crusade instigated or conducted to bring a group of people to a stage of development considered to be more advanced.
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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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