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supercultivated en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + cultivated.

Meanings

1. Extremely cultivated (in various senses).
   • If one follows [William] Blake's mind through the several stages of his poetic development it is impossible to regard him as a naïf, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated. 1920, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Blake”, in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 137:
   • I rather like the semi-wild character of some of the less supercultivated roses; they contribute a large share of the interest which belongs to an artistic garden. 1894, F. Schuyler Mathews, “Roses, Lilies, Carnations, Chrysanthemums, and Orchids”, in The Beautiful Flower Garden: Its Treatment With Special Regard for the Picturesque, Philadelphia, P.A.: W. Atlee Burpee & Co., page 81:
   • What is curious is the completeness with which this hyper-imaginative, supercultivated world — which could well account for, say, Shakespeare's "romances," for his sophisticated and profoundly consistent use of the mythologies of the great religions, for his use of emblematic symbolism, both in his dramatic structure and his poetic style, and for his phenomenal abilities as an actively creative visionary—vanished. 1991, Ted Hughes, “Introduction”, in William Shakespeare, The Essential Shakespeare, Hopewell, N.J.: The Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 11:

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