supercivilized

English

Alternative forms

• supercivilised

Etymology

From super- +‎ civilized.

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Adjective

supercivilized (comparative more supercivilized, superlative most supercivilized)

1. Highly civilized.
   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:

     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.