Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being civilized. Also spelled
civilisable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being civilized.
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- adjective Capable of, or suitable to be
civilized
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we want to combat it successfully, we have to admit that humanity is not completely civilizable.
Ballardian » ‘Violence without end’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard 2008
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If we want to combat it successfully, we have to admit that humanity is not completely civilizable.
Ballardian » ‘Violence without end’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard 2008
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[44] _La race de sang-mêlé, issue des blancs et des noirs, est éminement civilizable.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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To it perhaps more than to any other cause we must attribute the civilizable and the civilized state of mind.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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