Savageness

Savageness
Savageness Sav"age*ness, n. The state or quality of being savage. [1913 Webster]

Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • savageness — index brutality, cruelty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • savageness — noun the property of being untamed and ferocious (Freq. 1) the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums • Syn: ↑savagery • Derivationally… …   Useful english dictionary

  • savageness — noun see savage I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • savageness — See savagely. * * * …   Universalium

  • savageness — noun The property of being or behaving savagely …   Wiktionary

  • savageness — sav·age·ness || sævɪdÊ’nɪs n. state of being uncivilized; wildness, state of being untamed; cruelness, fierceness; ruthlessness, brutality; angriness, furiousness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • savageness — n. 1. Barbarism. 2. Cruelty, barbarousness, ferocity, barbarity …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • savageness — sav·age·ness …   English syllables

  • savageness — See: savage …   English dictionary

  • savagery — noun 1. the property of being untamed and ferocious the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums • Syn: ↑savageness • Derivationally… …   Useful english dictionary

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