Definitions
the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
Word origin
Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilise + -ation or civil + -isation.
Used in a sentence
“From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.”
“It is also there in Miller’s worldview, which has long promoted racist fears of demographic replacement of white people and civilisation decline.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Refined society”12 letters
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