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civilisation

civilisation
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    • the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

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    civilisation
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    • ontwikkelingsniveau, beschaving
    • a particular society at a particular time and place

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    civilisation
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

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      civilisation
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        • a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

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        1. We discovered relics of an ancient civilisation.
        2. Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilisation than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
        3. Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities.
        4. Cinematographic images are a crucial element for learning about the past and for civic reflection upon our civilisation.