Definition of "savagism" []

• The state of being savage; wildness; lack of civilization. (noun)

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• "Even though imperialists made references to Afro-Americans and to Chinese, they concentrated on Indians because of the clear parallels in land dispossession based on a dichotomy between savagism and civilization."
• "The Bible, church, and school house, with the Pilgrims and other colonies, scatter the primeval darkness and savagism from the Atlantic coast."
• "As society advances, wealth increases; from savagism to civilization, from early civilization to the present time."