savagery
noun
an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
savageries
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pluralof savagery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021
Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
After victory we began by seeking to punish the Germans for Hitler's savageries and to help the British for having defended freedom's way for all people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be wondered why his own mother did not train him in the first natural savageries of existence, but she could not do it.
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
