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Definition of Imbruted
1. imbrute [v] - See also: imbrute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbruted
Literary usage of Imbruted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"To us it is plain, that the intercourse of the most imbruted of our race would
stand almost entirely still, without some distinguishing epithets of a ..."
2. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... shaw through Earnshaw's besetting sin, and gathers the estate into his own
control, pushing aside the heir, Hareton Earnshaw, whom he has imbruted, ..."
3. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World: Being a by John George Wood (1883)
"... imbruted by drink, decimated and ) citizen may murder an Indian with imp«
dying by epidemics and vices contracted from white men, the poor Indians ..."
4. Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers by David W. Bartlett (1855)
"The once high-minded, but now lost and imbruted father, sells the cow and ...
There is a jug of rum on the shelf, and an imbruted father slumbering on the ..."
5. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1873)
"This gives hope for the lower and almost imbruted races. Al things arc possible,
not to science, but to faith. It is true that tho lower races may be ..."
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