1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 334. Vulgar, illiterate, and vnciuilized men, do participate in their conditions, the labors and enuye of brute beasts.
1647. Cowley, Mistr., Welcome, iii. What joy couldst take, or what repose In Countrys so unciviliz’d as those?
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 119, ¶ 5. Several of our Men of the Town … make use of the most coarse uncivilized Words in our Language.
1777. Cook, Voy. Pacific, I. viii. (1784), I. 159. They shew as much ingenuity, both in invention and execution, as any uncivilized nations under similar circumstances.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Man of Many Friends, I. 283. The young gentlemen … with difficulty suppressed a most uncivilized laugh.
1869. Dowden, Stud. Lit. (1890), 161. The first thing we are tempted to say of him … is that he was emphatically an uncivilized man.
Hence Uncivilizedness.
1879. M. Arnold, Mixed Ess., Equality, 86. We owe … our uncivilisedness to inequality.
