civiliser

"The ANC will be shocked to discover that the Afrikaner nation, with its history as the civiliser of southern Africa ... will not allow this," the CP said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

But in general the Church, as the civiliser of nations, disdained such old wives 'tales.

Words Trevor-Roper, Hugh 1972

Why fly to Biddy Salamander and Bulkabra, when the Queen of Beauty and Count D'Orsay have equally urgent claims on the attention and sympathies of the civiliser?

Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various

This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Trent stood and watched it, smoking fiercely and felt himself a civiliser.

A Millionaire of Yesterday 1906

The Empire, mediately or immediately, must become the universal educator, news-agent, book-distributor, civiliser-general, and vehicle of imaginative inspiration for its peoples, or else it must submit to the gravitation of its various parts to new and more invigorating associations.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

This, I take it, is one of the greatest feats of a civiliser.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

And, indeed, Virgil's theme here is less the development of a character or the portraiture of a hero than the idealisation of the people of the Italy which he loved so well, who needed only a divinely guided leader and civiliser to enter upon the glorious career that was in store for them.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Greece was ceasing to be an unconnected crowd of little separate communities; unconsciously it was preparing itself for a larger destiny, that of conqueror and civiliser of East and West.

A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall 1880

Destroy, sweep away, prepare the ground; then shall music the holy, music the civiliser, breathe over the renewed earth, and with Orphean magic raise in perfected beauty the towers of the City of Man.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880