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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uncivilizable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + civilizable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Incapable of being civilized.
    • This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108: