Civilising is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CIVILISING in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [CIV·I·LIZED, CIV·I·LIZ·ING.]:
• to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
VERB:
• CIVILISE, to instruct in refinements, also CIVILIZE
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to civilize

Words related to CIVILISING

civilise13 civilised15 civilises14 civilize22

Words that contain CIVILISING

decivilising19

How to use CIVILISING in a sentence

• A peace which virtually extended German conquest to the hinterland of Tsing-Tchau was dangerous to every civilising influence in the Far East.
• It disposes once and for all at least of the civilising mission of Germany.
• This feeling corresponds with my idea of the best method of civilising a savage.
• But then, after all, the permanence of Roman power was only valuable to mankind because it ensured the spread of certain civilising ideas.
• It not only waited upon law and order, but exercised a civilising influence towards the Maoris, through those who were trained in its ranks.
• It was mainly by means of the monasteries that Christianity became a great civilising and teaching agency in England.
• The civilising value of the monasteries can hardly be over-rated.
• The value of the civilising influence thus exerted is seen especially in the written laws, and it affected even the actions of the fierce English princes.
• Through the Church alone was an organisation kept up in direct communication with the central civilising agencies of Italy and the south.
• The world had been civilising itself till one began to doubt whether ancient histories were not ancient legends.
• It was a civilising expedition more than a conquest, and a continual current of immigration was established over the Straits.
• The temple of Mul-lil at Nippur is the central sanctuary, to which they bring their offerings, and from which a civilising influence emanates.
• But in those old days we studied Arnold Toynbee overmuch and neglected the civilising influences of the card-table.
• Paul, to have been the most humanizing and civilising influence ever brought to bear upon society.
• She had unconsciously moved on with the civilising and refining influences of her time.
• What we may call the caste feeling has indeed contributed greatly to civilising the country.

Similar words containing CIVILIS without suffix ing

civilise13 civilist13 civilised15 civiliser14 civilises14 civilists14 civilisers15 decivilise16 civilisable18 decivilised18 decivilises17 uncivilised17 civilisation17 decivilising19 subcivilised20 civilisations18 overcivilised22 semicivilised21 uncivilisedly22 civilisational19 hypercivilised28 supercivilised22 ultracivilised20 subcivilisation22 uncivilisedness21

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