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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bestiality
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accusations against his criminality and bestiality are related to the desire to purify our own culture and civilisation.
▪ In every instance, rituals of humiliation, of slow torture, of unspeakable bestiality accompanied the killings.
▪ Such tech gangs held the frontier between the tangled civilization above and the bestiality beneath.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestiality

Bestiality \Bes*tial"i*ty\, n. [F. bestialit['e].]

  1. The state or quality of being bestial.

  2. Unnatural connection with a beast.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bestiality

late 14c., "the nature of beasts," from bestial + -ity. Meaning "indulgence in beastly instincts" is from 1650s; sense of "sexual activity with a beast" is from 1611 (KJV).

Wiktionary
bestiality

n. 1 (context archaic English) A status of lower animal. 2 (context archaic English) An animal-like instinct or behaviour. 3 (context archaic English) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast. 4 Sexual activity between a human and another species. 5 (context dated English) bestial in nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man" 6 (context dated English) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.

WordNet
bestiality

n. sexual activity between a person and an animal [syn: zooerastia, zooerasty]

Wikipedia
Bestiality (disambiguation)

Bestiality is an alternate term for Zoophilia, sexual acts between humans and animals.

Bestiality may refer to:

  • Bestial sign, astrological signs that represent animals

Usage examples of "bestiality".

Besides, the blood transports the animal spirit, and I would be loath to infuse the bestiality of an ox into a person.

Prestcott was all the proof I could ever need to persuade me to put aside skepticism forever, for no human form would be capable of the violent bestiality I saw in that room.

Or perhaps it would be better not to know, to sink in ignorance into raving bestiality, if that was to be his fate.

There are roving bands of renegade Jiamads, and men who have given themselves over to the darkest bestiality of their own natures.

Man, a flickering candle in the darkness of bestiality and error that surrounds it.

The Yahoos, regarded as a distinct species, humanoid rather than equine, represent the irrational bestiality that the Houyhnhnms reject.

Unquestionably each of them was a monster, a despicable wretch sunken to the lowest depths of human bestiality, but nonetheless human.

When war weariness is apt to sap resolution and the possibility of a patched up peace is furtively canvassed, the great world of the English-speaking race should call to remembrance the inhuman and barely credible acts of brutality and bestiality committed in cold blood by the German race.

They walk with God, and the bestialities of us animals are fantastic to them.

News on the radio was of wars in China and Spain, massacre and bestialities in Germany, cruelties and self-defeat all over the world.

On the walls were carvings so hideous that even in this imperfect image their stark blasphemousness and bestiality sickened me.

The animal operating the grid center opened its mouth at him and showed its teeth, casually displaying its bestiality.

The sight that greeted him compounded his worst fears, a drunken orgy, possibly bestiality and witchcraft, led by that decadent hippy, Georgie Maguire, who was now bopping with a basset, and with that degenerate, overweight ruffian Ferdie Fitzgerald bringing up the rear.

Verulam gives obscene blows of triumphant bestiality with his groin against the frame, miming the events of the celestial orbs in the domain of the decans in order to understand the ultimate secrets of the Great Establishment and the secret of the New Atlantis itself, which he calls Gottlieb’s, parodying the sacred language of the manifestoes attributed to Andreae.

Illegals, vids that push code as they tend to involve minors, authentic violence, and bestiality.