Synonym: civilization, culture, refinement. Similar words: civilization, sterilisation, rationalisation, globalisation, naturalisation, neutralisation, crystallisation, generalisation. Meaning: n. 1. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization 2. a particular society at a particular time and place 3. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) 4. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.
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61. If we want to continue to romanticise our natural world, we, as a civilisation, must also avoid it.
62. But he knew it was vital to remember that the evil men who were jeopardising civilisation were also risible little twerps.
63. To the Chinese, theirs was not a civilisation, but the civilisation.
64. Maize was certainly a primary focus of ritual and religious veneration by ancient Meso-American people, going back all the way before the Maya and even into the Olmec civilisation.
65. Altman asserted, "We were making a political statement about western civilisation and greed.".
66. So why, in the middle of the 15th century, did this advanced civilisation suddenly cease its spectacular progress?
67. They soon started to influence the Etruscans ( the native civilisation of Etruria ).
68. Americans, for all their overt religiosity, have dedicated their civilisation to proving Job wrong.
69. The Mexican Revolution was seen not only as a threat to US interests but to civilisation itself, says curator Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea.
70. As far as civilisation goes they are in their second.
71. Contemporaneously , or possibly a little later, there developed a great Sumerian civilisation.
72. The decipherment of the Mayan glyphs revealed that the New World had a sophisticated, literate civilisation at the time of the Roman empire.
73. Athens, the capital of Greece, is known as the birthplace of western civilisation.
74. Because there is too much civilisation , too means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
75. The real complaining party at the bar in this courtroom is civilisation.
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76. TheEtruscans were a prehistoric civilisation that arose in western Italy -what is now Tuscany and parts of Umbria - and was absorbed into theRoman empire by the first century BC.
77. But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.
78. He saw himself as standard-bearer for the pre-war Teutonic civilisation ruined by the Nazis, and he brought this civilisation to America as an enlightening service, something to benefit the natives.
79. The cacao bean played an important role in Mesoamerican civilisation, the native civilisation in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to the Spanish exploration and conquest of the 16th century.
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