savagizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

savagize (三人称単数 現在形 savagizes, 現在分詞 savagizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 savagized)

1. (transitive) To make savage; to reduce to a state of savagery.
   • 1817, The Analectic Magazine (volume 9, page 153)

     […] the chiefs came to a determination, that Jewitt should be married (they knew better than to think of savagizing Thompson) […]

   • 1884, Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of the Northwest Coast: 1543–1800

     But there are many tribes of Indians and islanders more expert with their canoes — as for example the Alaskans and the Kanakas — than any European, however savagized by forest life.

   • 2004, John McWilliams, New England's Crises and Cultural Memory, page 108:

     This conceptual change allowed the Indian as tractable heathen to be rather rapidly replaced by the Indian as uncivilizable savage. When, therefore, nineteenth-century white historical writers wished to elegize or savagize the Indian, it was comparatively easy for them and their audience to assume that Mohicans, Pequots, and even Wampanoags no longer existed.