primitivizev.

1940 W. E. Hocking Living Relig. & World Faith 154 Social services maintained by the Radical Displacement missions thus tend to be such as they can conduct by themselves, and in conjunction with their own religious teaching. This tends to primitivise the Christian community.

1956 Ethics 66 218/2 The latter work, too, is not wholly free from the tendency to ‘primitivize’ ancient man and culture.

1979 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Dec. 9/2 The only really classless societies in history have been primitive subsistence societies... To really make a society classless, therefore, would be to primitivize it.

2000 Irish Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. 67 Gordon elaborates the white agenda to primitivise Mexicans as classless and undifferentiated.

1955 Times 18 May 8/6 It does not bring about a primitivizing or animalizing of the human, but rather it celebrates man at his human best.

1959 Encounter May 50/2 Mr. Logue is a primitivizing poet.

1998 Art in Amer. (Nexis) Dec. 64 Race is key to appreciating the defiance inherent in two aspects of the work: Thompson's portrayal of the white female nude and his primitivizing style.

1999 M. J. Cutter Unruly Tongue 20 This poem borders on the primitivizing of African American women common during the Harlem Renaissance.