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单词 decivilize
释义 decivilize, v.|dɪˈsɪvɪlaɪz|
[de- II. 1.: in mod.F. déciviliser (Littré).]
To divest of civilization, to degrade from a civilized condition. Hence deˈcivilized ppl. a., deˈcivilizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; deciviliˈzation, the process or condition of losing civilization.
1831Mrs. M. Holley Texas (1833) 43 It sometimes happens that a white man from the States, who has become somewhat decivilized (to coin a word), is substituted.a1859De Quincey has decivilized (F. Hall).1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. §71 We have but to imagine ourselves de-civilized.1892Sat. Rev. 27 Aug. 246/1 He was barbarized, de-civilized, and enslaved.1889Ch. Times 15 Feb. 159/1 The decivilising effect of the wars.1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 447 General harm, and decivilization, of the people.1885E. W. Benson in Law Times LXXVIII. 338/1 If it might stem by even its own ruin the process of decivilisation.
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