antisavage

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ savage

Adjective

antisavage (comparative more antisavage, superlative most antisavage)

1. Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
   • 2001, Ter Ellingson, The Myth of the Noble Savage, volume 1, page 236:

     Furthermore, as the events of the Revolution receded into the historical background and racial polemic increasingly dominated the discursive foreground, antisavage rhetoric became both stronger and more generalized in ways that seemed to render increasingly unlikely either the chances of emergence of a belief in savage nobility in general or its particular association with Rousseau.