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barbarisations

barbarisations is the plural of barbarisation.

Meaning of barbarisation

Noun

barbarisation (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisations)

  1. An act which causes people to revert to a state which is primitive and uncivilized.
    • The superhuman energy that the Bolshevik party displayed in those years, and the sacrifices it was able to elicit from the workers and peasants, saved Soviet power at the cost of economic ruin, immense human suffering, the loss of millions of lives, and the barbarization of society.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...

Questions about barbarisations

What is barbarisations the plural of?
Barbarisations is the plural of barbarisation.

Words near barbarisations in the dictionary

  1. barbarious
  2. barbariously
  3. barbariousness
  4. Barbaris
  5. barbarisation
  6. barbarisations
  7. barbarise
  8. barbarised
  9. barbarises
  10. barbarising
  11. barbarism

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