The present participle of 'barbarianize,' describing the ongoing process of becoming or making something barbarous.
Present participle formed from 'barbarianize' with the suffix '-ing,' indicating a continuous action in the process of happening.
This word appears frequently in Victorian literature where writers worried that industrialization was 'barbarianizing' society by making it too mechanistic and heartless—a fear that still echoes today about technology!
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