Crossword clues for savagery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savagery \Sav"age*ry\ (?; 277), n. [F. sauvagerie.]
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The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
A like work of primeval savagery.
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An act of cruelty; barbarity.
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
--Shak. Wild growth, as of plants.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s; see savage (adj.) + -ry.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the status of being savage 2 a violent act of cruelty 3 savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity
WordNet
n. the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness]
a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism]
Usage examples of "savagery".
We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.
It had finally been swept aside by the forces of an increasingly nervous secular state empowered by a sickened populace, but its name lingered as a byword for terror, sadism and savagery, and all that is foul in human nature.
But because of his own streak of savagery London could grasp something that Wells apparently could not, and that is that hedonistic societies do not endure.
They bestow universal education upon man and cause him to rise from lowest levels of savagery to the highest pinnacles of spiritual development.
Ann, the young assistant, played with acorn cups and bits of china under the old oak, unmolested, for Maumer was wrestling with a problem, and all of the latent, unsuspected savagery was rising.
The apparent savagery of the giant, together with his fantastic finery which heightened rather than lessened the terror of his appearance, lent Skol Abdhur an aspect which set him outside the pale of ordinary humanity.
Larry sleeping inside, Joe standing outside, brandishing his knife with mute savagery, and nothing between them but the thin and sliceable screen.
The sheer savagery that had torn the great whale continued unabated, and the young sailor knew the sahuagin had eaten their fill of the whale when the Taker had slain it.
Stealing the brains of the warriors was the tizwin until their actions were guided only by stark brutish germ of savagery.
Coils of gas-filled intestines hung from the great, gaping gash in the belly and onto the dusty ground between the toeless feet, decently hiding the evidences of the hideous outrages which sharp steel and cruel savagery had wrought between the legs of the dead man.
The tump was wriggling now, moving away as though the pain of its wound and the savagery of the fighting was too much.
Here was ferocity, and savagery, but not of the wild, upbursting fury of the Celt.
Of this savagery one will look in vain for criticism or condemnation in the writings of the opponents of vivisection reform at the present day.
Even in this three-hundred-and-eighty-year-old engraving he could see the savagery, the sheer voraciousness of the creature.
From Blarney to the Blaskets the distance is not that of a couple of counties, but the gap between Kylemore and Rinvyle between civilization and savagery.