brute
noun
a nonhuman creature; beast.
bruteness
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a word derived from
brute.
Example Sentences
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I tried to tell her all that had happened, all that I’d come to understand: the meaningless objectness of the world, the universal bruteness.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The immobility, or bruteness, of Nature is the absence of spirit.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
He seemed to have become in a measure aware of the bruteness of the life he had hitherto led: he must have had a glimpse of something better.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
