单词 | debarbarize |
释义 | debarbarizev. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1823 |
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