supercivilized
English
Alternative forms
- supercivilised
Etymology
super- + civilized
Adjective
supercivilized (comparative more supercivilized, superlative most supercivilized)
- highly civilized
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- There was no peace for him between the two currents that flowed in his nature, the blood of his passionate, plebeian mother and that of his long-descended, supercivilised sire. They continued to toss him from one side to the other; they arrayed him in intolerable defiances and revenges against himself.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.