Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See civilizable, civilization, etc.
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Examples
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Progress would hardly be the exception which we know it to be in the history of communities if there were not fundamental diversities in the civilisable quality of races.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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Progress would hardly be the exception which we know it to be in the history of communities if there were not fundamental diversities in the civilisable quality of races.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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This small maritime tribe, who make excellent sailors, is interesting and civilisable; many have been Christianised, especially by the Roman Catholic missioners.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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