nonbarbaric

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A form of non-barbaric — not barbaric

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenonbarbaric (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of non-barbaric.

    This is one of the fullest, most complex (and virtually untranslatable into nonbarbaric English) statements about Andenken.

    1991, Hugh J. Silverman, Writing the Politics of Difference, →ISBN, page 280
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    But the constitutional, nonbarbaric, patient approaches to drug abuse clearly have not worked to curb either, addiction or traffic.

    1976, The Global Connection: Heroin Entrepreneurs : Vol. I

    This provides us with an appropriate and usable framework within which not only can we analyze economic theory and policy, but determine whether they are barbaric or nonbarbaric in their social and human impact.

    1989, Challenge

    The word that Roman authors generally used for the Gaulish and other European polities was civitas, which is generally translated as “state” when applied to nonbarbaric subjects but came to be conventionally translated as “tribe” when it referred to the Gauls or Germans (see Rives 1999, 153).

    2008, David Sneath, The Headless State, →ISBN

    LWP sets forth a hierarchy of moderation that is mapped on a hierarchy of religions; this mapping reiterates the common formulation of barbarians as lacking reason and control, and thus lacking the self-discipline and self-mastery intrinsic to nonbarbaric peoples.

    2011, Helen Kinsella, The Image before the Weapon, →ISBN

    Insofar as he teaches culture and tries to model himself on the noble classical prototype, he cares about what is not in common: the nonbarbaric qualities that set the Greeks and Romans apart and above all others.

    2015, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, →ISBN

Origin

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