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savagism|ˈsævɪdʒɪz(ə)m|
Also savageism.
[f. savage a. + -ism.]
= savagery 2.
1796W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. II. 465 Virtues..could alone keep the world from that relapse into savagism to which mankind is ever tending. 1798A. P. Tour in Wales 30 (MS.) We began to omit clambering among..ruins, merely for the assurance of Superstition and Savageism having existed when these terror striking fabrics were erected. 1841M. Hennell in C. Bray Philos. Necess. II. 616 Fourier..divides the history of humanity into four forms or periods, incoherently social—savagism, patriarchalism, barbarism and civilization. 1877Sparrow Serm. xiii. 175 There are various kinds of life..there is that of youth and age, of ignorance and knowledge, of civilization and savageism, with numerous subdivisions under each. |