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Definition of Embrutes
1. embrute [v] - See also: embrute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrutes
Literary usage of Embrutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Henry George by Henry George (1881)
"As the unduly rich are the corollary of the unduly poor, so is the soul-destroying
quality of riches but the reflex of the want that embrutes and degrades. ..."
2. Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1866)
"... while at the same tin e he embrutes the instrument of his subjection, and
whether the tamer or the tamed deserves the name of a man, of a thinking being ..."
3. The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton (1848)
"The appetites, by indulging in which the soul "embodies and embrutes," are to be
referred to our material part. The diseases which the flesh is heir to ..."
4. The American Monthly Magazine (1837)
"He depraves the king, corrupts and embrutes him ; he drives him to tyranny, to
ignorance, and vice; he looses him upon the families of all the gentlemen, ..."
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