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- adjective Not
romanized .
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Wistful or fancifully envious admiration for the fortunate simple yeomen, or careless poor men, or noble savages, or untradesmanlike fishermen, or unromanized _Germani_, or animals who do not fret about their souls, admiration for those in any class who are not for the fashion of these days, is a deep-seated and ancient sentiment, akin to the sentiment for childhood and the golden age.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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On the one hand, it is hardly credible that an unromanized folk should adopt so much of Roman things as the British did, and yet remain uninfluenced.
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And it is equally incredible that, while it remained unromanized, it should either care or understand how to borrow all the externals of Roman life.
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Augustus to organize the conquered but as yet unromanized lands.
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[Footnote 1: English writers sometimes adduce the provincial origins of the soldiers as proofs that they were unromanized.
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