supercivilized love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Civilized to excess; over-civilized.

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  • adjective highly civilized

Etymologies

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super- +‎ civilized

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Examples

  • Kohout added that what the world, as it is today, stands in greatest need of may well be "a new example" if "the next thousand years are not to become an era of supercivilized monkeys."

    A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence Arendt, Hannah 1969

  • It is sufficient to say that the stick, the night stick as they call what the police use there and which was abolished in our country a long time ago, is an institution of terror in that superfree country, this superdemocratic, superhumanitarian and supercivilized country.

    CASTRO AGAIN WARNS U.S. ON GUANTANAMO 1960

  • "Perhaps you, the toilers, the subduers of the wilderness, are to serve as an anchor for the supercivilized generations to hold on by."

    The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905

  • Eastern supercivilized hostiles from New York was breakfasting with the

    Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

  • It doesn't follow that one has to be less a slave to the artificial comforts of a supercivilized world because one lives at Mesa. "

    Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912

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