uncivilizing

Updated: May 2, 2025

Noble Normans sunk into savages Hibernis ipsis hiberniores! Is there some uncivilizing venom in the air?" "Some venom, at least, which makes English men traitors. But the Irish themselves are well enough, if their tyrants would let them be.

Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth