Definition of Savageries

1. Noun. (plural of savagery) ¹

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Definition of Savageries

1. savagery [n] - See also: savagery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Savageries

sauts
sautés
sauvagine
sauvegarde
sav
savable
savableness
savacioun
savage
savaged
savagedom
savagely
savageness
savagenesses
savager
savageries (current term)
savagery
savages
savagest
savaging
savagism
savagisms
savaloy
savaloys
savanilla
savanna
savannah
savannah monitor
savannah monitors
savannahs

Literary usage of Savageries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"The French were open to a grave criticism in their maintenance of these savageries on the part of their allies, yet it was only a turning of the tables. ..."

2. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"The French were open to a grave criticism in their maintenance of these savageries on the part of their allies, yet it was only a turning of the tables. ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... rid of the savageries and brutalities which had so evidently nothing in common with the spirit and the virtues insisted on and blessed by the founder of ..."

4. The Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia by Frederick McCormick (1909)
"As in Chih-li in 1900 so here the Cossacks and other soldiery practiced savageries against the Chinese. Certain elements at least in the army have been ..."

5. Some Outlines of the Religion of Experience: A Book for Laymen and the by Horace James Bridges (1916)
"The only triumph of a refining influence that can reasonably be looked for is that they should occasionally have intermitted their savageries,—that once in ..."

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