Example Sentences

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Can it be true," he asks, "that in attempting to keep open house for all mankind, we have lost our birthright, squandered our intellectual heritage, so that Americanization is tantamount to barbarization?

From Time Magazine Archive

This was due chiefly to the progressive barbarization of the empire and to the decline of paganism which lay at the roots of ancient civilization.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

And side by side with the barbarization of the army goes the barbarization of civil manners too.

From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna