Antisavage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antisavage is an adjective meaning Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
Meaning
Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include savage, uncivilized, barbarous, pagan, antisnob, antisocial.
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