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单词 debarbarize
释义

debarbarizev.

Etymology: < de- prefix 2a + barbarize v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈbarbarize.
transitive. To divest of its barbarous character, to render not barbarous; = unbarbarize v.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > make civilized [verb (transitive)]
civil1584
civilize1595
reclaim1603
unbeast1611
dissavage1631
unbarbarize1648
unbrute1670
disbarbarize1803
unbrutify1812
debarbarize1823
snivelize1849
unbrutalize1852
1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. July 91/2 Wherever law and intellectual order prevail, they debarbarise (if I may be allowed such a coinage) what in its elements might be barbarous.
1857 T. De Quincey China in Titan Feb. 188/1 No Asiatic state has ever debarbarised itself.
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. iii. 72 Before society can be civilized it has to be debarbarized.
1930 W. R. Inge Christian Ethics v. 223 The Catholic Church might..have..found a congenial task in debarbarising Christianity.
1963 Guardian 19 Feb. 4/2 Our chance to de-barbarise our society.

Derivatives

debarbariˈzation n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > [noun] > civilizing
civilizing1611
civilization1656
reclamation1750
debarbarization1848
1848 N. Wiseman Ess. (1853) III. 427 To bring..the blessing, not of civilization, but of debarbarization.
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