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/sˌɪvɪlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
a man of intellectual refinement
he is remembered for his generosity and civilization -
a particular society at a particular time and place
early Mayan civilization -
a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization - the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization
How To Use civilisation In A Sentence
- The earliest samples of enamel using glass can be traced to before 2,500 B.C. to the Sumerian and Egyptian civilisations.
- Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction.
- Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
- Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
- _They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
- With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
- It's an examination of a world that the march of civilisation should have rendered obsolete years ago. Times, Sunday Times
- The following centuries saw the successive rise and fall of new civilisations.
- Charles Gordon Frazer painted Cannibal Feast to provide an insight into the cannibal civilisations he feared were on the brink of extinction after witnessing the feast while hiding in long grass.
- The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation.
