| 单词 |
uncivilized |
| 释义 |
unˈcivilized, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
Not civilized; barbarous. Also absol.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 334 Vulgar, illiterate, and vnciuilized men, do participate in their conditions, the labors and enuye of brute beasts. 1647Cowley Mistr., Welcome iii, What joy couldst take, or what repose In Countrys so unciviliz'd as those? 1711Addison Spect. No. 119 ⁋5 Several of our Men of the Town..make use of the most coarse uncivilized Words in our Language. 1777Cook Voy. Pacific i. viii. (1784) I. 159 They shew as much ingenuity, both in invention and execution, as any uncivilized nations under similar circumstances. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Friends I. 283 The young gentlemen..with difficulty suppressed a most uncivilized laugh. 1869Dowden Stud. Lit. (1890) 161 The first thing we are tempted to say of him..is that he was emphatically an uncivilized man.
absol.1900tr. J. Deniker's Races of Man vii. 251 Among the uncivilised, it is not a question of absolute right, of absolute morality; everything is reduced to a very restricted altruism, not extending beyond kin and immediate neighbours.
Hence unˈcivilizedness.
1879M. Arnold Mixed Ess., Equality 86 We owe..our uncivilisedness to inequality. |
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