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Definition of Overcivilized
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcivilized
Literary usage of Overcivilized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... nervous organization is responsible for the increased morbidity of pregnancy
and labor which is apparent among these women of the overcivilized class. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"ceaseless agitation of our overcivilized the very beginning she declares that
Western world, may perhaps give us she can do nothing without foreign aid. an ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"If the patient belongs to the definitely overcivilized class, the treatment must
be so chosen as to be adapted to the special conditions present. ..."
4. The Club of Queer Trades by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"He was the type of the overcivilized, as Professor Chadd was of the uncivilized
pedant. His formality and agreeableness did him some credit under the ..."
5. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the overcivilized
man, who has lost the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant man ..."
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