microcivilization
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microcivilization (plural microcivilizations)
- A tiny civilization.
- 2007 November 4, Caroline Weber, “Tour de France”, in New York Times[1]:
- Yet according to Robb, who has written biographies of Victor Hugo, Honor de Balzac and Arthur Rimbaud, these microcivilizations were not formless planetoids waiting to be swallowed by a giant state, and their inhabitants didnt constitute a shapeless mass of human raw material, waiting to be processed by the huge, mutating machine of political interference and turned into the people conveniently known as the French.