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barbarization

barbarization is the alternative form 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...

Forms of barbarization

pluralbarbarizations

Origin of barbarization

From barbarize + -ation.

Words formed from barbarization

Questions about barbarization

What is barbarization the alternative form of?
Barbarization is the alternative form of barbarisation.

Words near barbarization in the dictionary

  1. barbarising
  2. barbarism
  3. barbarisms
  4. barbarities
  5. barbarity
  6. barbarization
  7. barbarizations
  8. barbarize
  9. barbarized
  10. barbarizes
  11. barbarizing

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