civilized world

collocation in English

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civilized
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪzd/us
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪzd/
A civilized society or country has a well developed system of government, culture, and way of life and that treats the people who live ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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(Definition ofcivilizedandworldfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A sense of crossing a threshold from the public sphere of middle-class civilization to a more shadowy and lesscivilizedworldpervades the report.
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The seventeenth-century discourse of trade transposed these tensions about domestic commerce on to overseas trade, which both united and divided thecivilizedworld.
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Thecivilizedworldis engaged in one of the greatest controversies possible.
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One can hardly conceive a trade which deserves more condemnation from thecivilizedworld.
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The applicant committed an offence terrifying to thecivilizedworld.
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This did not long go unnoticed by thecivilizedworld.
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That's the poisoned and mortal wound of thecivilizedworld.
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You have lost the respect of thecivilizedworld.
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Such thoroughly well-founded, good answers which we have heard this afternoon will be ancknowledged throughout thecivilizedworld.
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This is a regime that has something to hide from thecivilizedworld.
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Many do not trust thecivilizedworldand are hesitant to partake education.
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Spencius declares that there is no place for heroes in the modern,civilizedworld.
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Thecivilizedworldwas amazed and indignant at the announcement of the sentence.
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It is to achieve a result: the end of thecivilizedworld.
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Nonetheless, we lack precise data to demonstrate this influence in thecivilizedworld.
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It seems indeed a heavy price to pay for this possible initial advantage that they will thereby have earned the execration of the wholecivilizedworld.
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They found themselves in an unknown territory, and could not count on any help or rescue from thecivilizedworld.
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Words can not express the feelings of profound horror with which the news of these raids had been received by the wholecivilizedworld.
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Up until the 20th century most independent nations in thecivilizedworldwere monarchies and therefore used the monarchistic style of coat of arms.
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Thecivilizedworldis controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch.
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Thrown over the side of a cliff, it hung down inside of a ravine and was forgotten by the rest of thecivilizedworld.
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Neither party could so understand the cession; neither party could consider itself as attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the wholecivilizedworld.
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