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antisavage en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + savage.

Meanings

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 of a belief in savage nobility in general or its particular association with Rousseau. 2001, Ter Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage, volume 1, page 236:

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