civilising's Usage Examples:

school system, as well as architecture to develop ‘economic growth and civilising influence’ as an important component of president McKinley's “benevolent.

modern development policy; whereas other colonial powers talked of a civilising mission, which mainly involved spreading their culture to colonised peoples.

They saw the plantation as a means of controlling, anglicising and "civilising" Ulster.

Apologists describe it as a civilising mission, while revisionists label it a genocide.

Among the novel's major themes are the civilising effect of Christianity, 19th-century imperialism in the South Pacific.

also developed an anarchist form of depth psychology (which rejected the civilising necessity of psychological repression proposed by Freud).

like Orpheus or Solon being appealed to as precedents for the poet's civilising role.

historical function of possessing and colonising overseas territories and civilising the native populations thereof, and to exercise the moral influence which.

"Sedentary topography: the impact of Christian Mission Society's 'civilising' agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern.

Person Sitting in Darkness" (1901), Mark Twain's factual satire of the civilising mission proposed, justified, and defended in "The White Man's Burden".

colonial project in the late 19th century and early 20th century was the civilising mission (mission civilisatrice), the principle that it was Europe's duty.

during the interwar period when it was encouraged as part of the colonial civilising mission.

Gilzean-Reid resided much in Belgium, and took early part in promoting civilising and religious agencies in the Congo.

rule in the Congo had been depicted as the culmination of the Belgian "civilising mission" begun by Leopold II in the Congo Free State.

metropolitan France, which ran counter to what they saw as the French "civilising mission" to present "morally upright" role models for Africans to emulate.

Frenchwoman to pour particular scorn on France's declared commitment to "civilising" Algeria.

Synonyms:

alter; modify; civilize; change;

Antonyms:

imperfection; roughness; uglify; juvenile; worsen;