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savageness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun savage or behaving savagely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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savage + -ness
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Man in Black and Jacob are both supernatural beings, bordering on the magical, and their struggle was an example of morality in the Victorian era, in which Caliban's "savageness " was a result of his accession to all impulses, scorning notions of willful self-control.
Get Ready: LOSTCasts 86: The Package 2010
This may be the image the white man has created of the Indian; his "savageness " has boomeranged and isn't a mystery; it is fear; fear of the Indian's temperament!
OpEdNews - Diary: Have a Colonialist Thanksgiving. 2008
Mr. Kenyon thinks it cannot end so -- and I do sometimes -- and in the meantime I do confess to a little 'savageness ' also -- at heart!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Brian Levin, J.D.: A 9/11 Remembrance: One Extraordinary Life Out of Many J.D. Brian Levin 2011
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
"Billy?" he demanded, with a savageness that startled her.
A WICKED WOMAN 2010
There was a compromise that approximated the truth, though it flattered not the school of god, while it challenged the brute-savageness of the school of clod.
Chapter 27 2010
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Brian Levin, J.D.: A 9/11 Remembrance: One Extraordinary Life Out of Many J.D. Brian Levin 2011
Philadelphia Red queried sweetly, ere his tones turned to savageness .
Chapter 7 2010
Savageness was a part of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-up.
The Outcast 2010
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