primitivized

While another military historian, John Keegan, in his new book A History of Warfare, draws a more benign portrait of primitive man, it is important to point out that what Van Creveld really means is re-primitivized man: warrior societies operating at a time of unprecedented resource scarcity and planetary overcrowding.

The Coming Anarchy 1994

While another military historian, John Keegan, in his new book A History of Warfare, draws a more benign portrait of primitive man, it is important to point out that what Van Creveld really means is re-primitivized man: warrior societies operating at a time of unprecedented resource scarcity and planetary overcrowding.

The Coming Anarchy 1994

The city, with its office towers and electricity, has been somehow primitivized by the rain: every hue darkened, every wheel slowed, every view foreshortened, every modern, commercial mind-set turned in on itself, forced to rub shoulders with the old salamander who sleeps in the soul.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

There are, apparently, people, primitivized people, who are deeply impressed by such things.

Jihad Monitor 2010

Failing that, expect a "new Dark Ages … a planet on which much of the map is re-primitivized."

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