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Definition of Brutifying
1. brutify [v] - See also: brutify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutifying
Literary usage of Brutifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840: Or, France Under Louis Philippe by Louis Blanc (1848)
"... with reference to beauty and to woman, are precisely those who the most
violently accuse us of a desire to establish in the world a brutifying tyranny. ..."
2. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1854)
"... the members being symmetrically arranged around them, as ornaments: a scene
worthy of a government of masters and of slaves, brutifying each other, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"It ought to animate us to desire the redemption of the minds and bodies of unborn
millions from the brutifying effects of a system whose tendency is to ..."
4. Annual Report by Massachusetts Bible Society (1870)
"... this great republic, brutifying the mind, corrupting the morals, degrading
the affections of old and young. Let these plagues, it is said, be removed. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... of the Christian legislator, how the augmentation of the national resources
may best be made the means of exalting, rather than of brutifying, humanity. ..."
6. The New Era (1874)
"It is the part of a Christian woman to teach her daughters to dread the dangers
of brutifying stupidity and idleness ; the social and intellectual suicide, ..."
7. The World's Famous Orations by Francis Whiting Halsey (1906)
"It ought to animate us to desire the redemption of the minds and bodies of unborn
millions from the brutifying effects of a system whose tendency is to ..."
8. A History of the Italian Republics: Being a View of the Rise, Progress, and by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1847)
"At the same time, the thinking men in France, who, instead of brutifying themselves
in order to suffer less from despotism, anarchy, and the invasion of the ..."
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