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1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 567 A love of military achievement, which tends to rebarbarize.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxix. 167 Nations can never take too many precautions against the possibility of being rebarbarized.

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 104 If the object was to rebarbarise the country, the proposition..would be well calculated to attain that end.

1882 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 15 For a civilized nation to..inflict the highest punishment of responsible crime on irresponsible lunatics..we must ourselves first become rebarbarized.

1939 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 5 58 Loose assertions concerning Reconstruction as..an effort to rebarbarize the Negro and to make South Carolina and Mississippi into African provinces, seem to have no basis in truth.

1989 J. B. Twitchell Preposterous Violence v. 189 Film..has done the most to reverse the process. Monsters have been rebarbarized. Violence has not only been restored but magnified.

1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 692 Destructive and re~barbarizing actions.

1807 W. Hazlitt Polit. Ess. (1819) 406 The re-barbarising and the re-enslaving the country.

1993 J. Gray Post-liberalism (1996) xviii. 270 Civilized men and women..have in common a perception of enmity in regard to the totalitarian states and rebarbarizing movements of our time.

2003 R. C. Wood Contending for Faith 1 What is to be done about such a massive rebarbarizing of the world?