snivelizationn.
/snɪv(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ Civilization considered derisively as a cause of anxiety or plaintiveness.In quot. c1938 with direct reference to quot. 1849.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > [noun]
police1530
civility1531
civilization1760
snivelization1849
civilizedness1878
kultur1914
1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 131 Ye wouldn't have been to sea here, leadin' this dog's life, if you hadn't been snivelized... Snivelization has been the ruin on ye.
1892 ‘M. Twain’ Satires & Burlesques (1967) 169 He was working this character into an elaborate satire on civilization to be called ‘Affeland (Snivelization)’.
c1938 L. Mumford Rep. Honolulu in City Devel. (1946) x. 106 The restrictions and burdens imposed by what one of Herman Melville's characters derisively called ‘snivelization’.
Derivatives
ˈsnivelize v. (transitive) to reduce (someone) to a state of whimpering civilization.Apparently an isolated use.
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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
1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 131 Ye wouldn't have been to sea here, leadin' this dog's life, if you hadn't been snivelized.
ˈsnivelized adj. Apparently an isolated use.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > [adjective] > civilized
civil1531
civilized1611
unbrutizeda1711
unbarbarized1719
snivelized1849
1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 130 Snivelized chaps only learns the way to take on 'bout life, and snivel.
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