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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRUTAL'ITY, n. Inhumanity; savageness; churlishness; insensibility to pity or shame.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery]
2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1549 1. the quality or state of being brutal 2. a brutal act or course of action

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brutality Bru*tal"i*ty, n.; pl. Brutalities. [Cf. F. brutalit['e].] 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. 2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. --Brougham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brutalities) Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. ...police brutality. ...the atrocities and brutalities committed by a former regime. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.

Moby Thesaurus

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