Meanings
adjectiveuncivilizable (not comparable)
- not comparableIncapable of being civilized.
This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage.
2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108
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uncivilizable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncivilizable
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