civilizing
Example Sentences
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Heaney was born with a subject he often resisted, and “Digging” turns away from violence to the civilizing necessity of work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He cited Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s description of justice “as the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations while injustice arouses the weakest.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Without the civilizing influence of true love, the widower returns to his roots, teaching Brooke how to track, shoot and lie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
What did “the civilizing mission” of industrialized nations entail?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“I placed this young man with you,” she says to me in a terrible quiet voice, “in the hopes that you might provide a civilizing influence. It appears that I was gravely mistaken.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
