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- noun Plural form of
civiliser .
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Examples
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The arrogance of some westerners in the recent era has been comparable with that of classic western "civilisers", certain that they know what is best for less developed societies, imposing solutions worked out for a different time and place.
Why there's no reason to fear feminism | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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The truth is that pubs were great civilisers: it meant that you learnt to drink around adults, according to adult rules.
Archive 2008-08-01 Obnoxio The Clown 2008
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The truth is that pubs were great civilisers: it meant that you learnt to drink around adults, according to adult rules.
Underage drinking -- is government crackdown wrong? RobW 2008
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Among other things, these Africans were perhaps the greatest civilisers of the ancient world, people who built cities, erected unparalleled monuments and vast temples and cities, established sciences and medicine... in short, they helped make the world as we know it.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Britons as great merchants and industrious traders; but, after all, merchants and traders are not the peers of fighters on land and sea, of navigators, conquerors and civilisers, such as his countrymen had been, such as he believed them still to be.
The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Prince of the fifteenth century, that obscure Prince may possibly belong to the rank of the great civilisers, the men who have most altered society and advanced it, men like Alexander and Cæsar and the founders of the great world religions.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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Saracens, who had begun as destroyers in the South, were acting as teachers and civilisers upon Europe, and that the Vikings, who as pirates in the North seemed raised up to complete the ruin of Latin civilisation, were really waking it into a new activity.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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Arizona did not seem to yield kindly to the civilisers; indeed, it was like the Colorado River, repellent and unbreakable.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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At the present day, when faith in despotic civilisers and paternal government has been rudely shaken, and the advantages of a free, spontaneous national development are fully recognised, centralised bureaucracies have everywhere fallen into bad odour.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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The civilisers are at work too, and they have their way in the end.
The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880
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