nonbarbaric

English edit

Etymology edit

non- +‎ barbaric

Adjective edit

nonbarbaric (not comparable)

Alternative form of non-barbaric
- 1976, The Global Connection: Heroin Entrepreneurs : Vol. I:
  But the constitutional, nonbarbaric, patient approaches to drug abuse clearly have not worked to curb either, addiction or traffic.
- 1989, Challenge:
  This provides us with an appropriate and usable framework within which not only can we analyze economic theory and policy, but determine whether they are barbaric or nonbarbaric in their social and human impact.
- 1991, Hugh J. Silverman, Writing the Politics of Difference, →ISBN, page 280:
  This is one of the fullest, most complex (and virtually untranslatable into nonbarbaric English) statements about Andenken.
- 2008, David Sneath, The Headless State, →ISBN:
  The word that Roman authors generally used for the Gaulish and other European polities was civitas, which is generally translated as “state” when applied to nonbarbaric subjects but came to be conventionally translated as “tribe” when it referred to the Gauls or Germans (see Rives 1999, 153).
- 2011, Helen Kinsella, The Image before the Weapon, →ISBN:
  LWP sets forth a hierarchy of moderation that is mapped on a hierarchy of religions; this mapping reiterates the common formulation of barbarians as lacking reason and control, and thus lacking the self-discipline and self-mastery intrinsic to nonbarbaric peoples.
- 2015, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, →ISBN:
  Insofar as he teaches culture and tries to model himself on the noble classical prototype, he cares about what is not in common: the nonbarbaric qualities that set the Greeks and Romans apart and above all others.