Meaning of Savagery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
   uncountable
2. A violent act of cruelty.
   countable
3. Savages collectively; the world of savages.
   countable, uncountable
4. Wild growth of plants.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““For some reason⟳ the women have⟳ not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.””

“They spring⟳ out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.”

“[…] they […] made, amongst other features, lead⟳ ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.”

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