Meaning of savagize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.

transitive

Examples

“[…] the chiefs came to a determination, that Jewitt should be married (they knew better than to think⟳ of savagizing Thompson) […]”

“But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.”

“This conceptual change⟳ allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume⟳ that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.”

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