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What the decline did involve everywhere was decivilization; the loss of letters, of laws, of roads and means of communication, the exaggeration of local colour into caprice.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

These vast forces are purely constabular—creatures and creators of discontent—phenomena of decivilization.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

There is also decivilization by erosion, and while it's going on, nobody notices it.

From Space Viking by Piper, H. Beam

Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

But on the edges of the Empire this decivilization became a definite barbarism, owing to the nearness of wild neighbours who were ready to destroy as deafly and blindly as things are destroyed by fire.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)