Definition of "semisavage" []

• One who is half savage. (noun)

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• "The aristocratic families in Granada, his hometown, had never fully welcomed the man they regarded as a “semisavage Indian” into their exclusive circle."
• "He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust."
• "These barbaric societies have their place and give vigor; but if unreduced later, as in many unsettled portions of this country, a semisavage state of society results."