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Definition of Hypercivilized
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypercivilized
Literary usage of Hypercivilized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Senescence, the Last Half of Life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"As the hypercivilized mind often longs back, like Rousseau, to an idyllic state
of nature; or the world- weary pietist longs back to God; and, ..."
2. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1890)
"By his side stands Dr. Léete, a physician of that hypercivilized epoch, and from
him he learns the antecedents of his remarkably sound sleep. ..."
3. A Critical Review of American Politics by Charles Reemelin (1881)
"They could not act the insinuating part of the hypercivilized Chinese, nor that
of the purely commercial Phoenician, hardly that of the cosmopolitan Greek; ..."
4. China by Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1900)
"The founders of the dynasties are all brave and successful warriors, who are
superior to the cant of a hypercivilized state of society, which covers ..."
5. Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess (1914)
"The mind is cultivated until it is hypercivilized, but where is the educated heart?
The frime, like the fool, is born, not made; no one has told him when to ..."
6. For France by Charles Hanson Towne, Booth Tarkington, George Ade, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Hamlin Garland, Theodore Roosevelt, Boardman Robinson (1917)
"France is a race of individuals but in every brain, hypercivilized or primitive,
is an inherited group of cells that automatically expects and is prepared ..."
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