savagism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of savagism
Example Sentences
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I have seen a good deal of ferocity and savagism, and it was not at all confined to people acknowledged to be barbarians.
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Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism—high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament.
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Yes! this great antagonist was slavery—an institution long thrown out of European life; a relic of the lowest barbarism and savagism, the very antipodes of freedom, and flourishing best only in the rudest forms of society; but now rearing its hideous visage in the midst of principles, forms, and institutions the most free and advanced of any that the world has ever witnessed.
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Power applied to spoliation forms the groundwork of human savagism.
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One cannot but be astonished at this mixture of "Japanism," savagism and eighteenth century taste, which constitutes inimitably the nude of Renoir.
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