[f. next + -ATION: cf. civilization.] a. The action of making barbarous. b. Barbarized state.
1822. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., LIII. 103. The misery … and barbarization of the boorish classes.
1854. Blackw. Mag., LXXVI. 143. The … barbarisation of the academic Latin.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life (1883), II. xvi. 36. The barbarisation of the Italian continent by … civil wars.
