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barbarization

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bar·ba·rize  (bärb-rz)
tr. & intr.v. bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing, bar·ba·riz·es
To make or become crude, savage, or barbarous.
barba·ri·zation (-r-zshn) n.
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Noun1.barbarization - an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
barbarisation
degradation, debasement - changing to a lower state (a less respected state)


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The fruit of Communist rule must be spiritual chaos and progressive barbarization.
The meaning of "demonic nothingness" by Henry, Michael / Modern Age
One aspect of that barbarization in our midst is apparent in "the harshness and ugliness that have entered Western civilization," now more pronounced than ever, as Lefever of the Ethics and Public Policy Center told the Baltimore Sun.
A civil tongue: may this House come to order by McCarthy, Abigail / Commonweal
In his celebrated essay, "Defining Deviancy Down" (American Scholar, Winter, 1993), Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm against passivity in the face of barbarization.
It's time to take sides by McConnell, Frank / Commonweal
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