单词 | savagedom |
释义 | savagedomn. 1. The realm of those considered wild or uncivilized; savage people collectively. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person > collectively savagery1822 savagedom1837 1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 16 Oct. All Christendom and Savagedom against the Seminoles and their negroes. 1873 Mission Life 4 247 The charm of finding oneself among English ladies, after months of sojourn in savagedom. 1921 E. Channing Hist. U.S. V. ii. 37 The contact of savagedom with the vices and diseases of civilization. 2008 A. Capella Var. Flavors of Coffee (2009) xxvi. 185 The tin-pot tyrant of a godforsaken dung-heap in a tiny fly-ridden corner of savagedom. 2. The condition of being wild or savage, savagery; a period characterized by this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] barbarousness1549 Barbary1564 barbarity1570 barbarism1584 incivility1584 uncivility1598 wildness1639 ferity1646 the (also a) state of nature1650 savagism1665 savagery1782 semi-barbarism1817 barbarization1822 incivilization1823 semibarbarianism1828 savagedom1844 barbarianism1854 uncivilizedness1879 uncivilization1880 bruteness1883 semi-savagedom1887 1844 Morning Post 26 Sept. 5/6 The philosopher of savagedom—the patron of pedantry and practiser of brutality. 1846 Amer. Farmer Mar. 284/1 The pear which has been removed only one step from savagedom. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 87 The people..goaded to frequent outbursts of ferocious savagedom by hunger. 1908 O. Crawfurd in 19th Cent. Jan. 63 In the early ages of savagedom this region was eagerly colonised by Rome. 1931 H. A. Overstreet Enduring Quest iii. x. 146 Man's long period of emergence from savagedom. 1990 R. Willis Signifying Animals (1994) 3 The special nature of savagedom was succinctly encapsulated in Frazer's assertion that totemism was both a religious and a social institution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837 |
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