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Savageness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAV'AGENESS, n.
1. Wildness; an untamed, uncultivated or uncivilized state; barbarism. Hence,
2. Cruelty; barbarousness.
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savageness aside, have done like offices of pity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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, savagery]

Merriam Webster's

noun see savage I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Savageness Sav"age*ness, n. The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Barbarism. 2. Cruelty, barbarousness, ferocity, barbarity.