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antisavage

antisavage adjective: opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).

Adjective

antisavage (comparative more antisavage, superlative most antisavage)

  1. Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
    • Furthermore, as the events of the Revolution receded into the historical background and racial polemic increasingly dominated the discursive foreground, antisavage rhetoric became both stronger and more generalized in ways that seemed to render increasingly unlikely either the chances of emergence...2001, Ter Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage, volume 1, page 236

Forms of antisavage

comparativemore antisavage
superlativemost antisavage

Origin of antisavage

From anti- + savage.

Questions about antisavage

What does antisavage mean?
Antisavage means opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
What part of speech is antisavage?
Antisavage is an adjective.

Words near antisavage in the dictionary

  1. antisanctions
  2. antisarcoma
  3. antisatellite
  4. antisaturation
  5. antisauvagine
  6. antisavage
  7. antiscab
  8. antiscabies
  9. antiscabious
  10. antiscalant
  11. antiscalants

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