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Definition of Barbarisation
1. Noun. An act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Generic synonyms: Debasement, Degradation
Derivative terms: Barbarise, Barbarise, Barbarize
Definition of Barbarisation
1. Noun. An act which causes people revert to a state which is primitive and uncivilized. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarisation
Literary usage of Barbarisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"... this is precisely from our being able to trace in it, step by step, what may
be called the de-barbarisation of the conception of life. ..."
2. The Growth of the Manor by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"But in order to speak of it rightly we must remember that the Romanisation of
outlying provinces is at the same time the barbarisation of Rome. ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... the devastation and barbarisation of south Russia proceeded apace, so that it
soon ceased to be the centre of political life. ..."
4. The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1867)
"As we cannot but suppose that the state of the world, as well during, as subsequent
to the introduction of Christianity, the comparative re- barbarisation ..."
5. German Education Past and Present by Friedrich Paulsen (1908)
"The barbarisation of the world by scholastic philosophy, by men like Thomas and
Scotus, is the ever-recurring theme of the eloquence of the Humanists. ..."
6. Democracy and Reaction by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1904)
"... the hardening elements—so necessary for “re-barbarisation “—the plan of making
a boy fend for himself from a very early age, but they seldom pretend ..."
7. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"... is probable that the barbarisation of the army progressed surely and continuously,
but this plan of settling barbarians as coloni within Roman territory ..."
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