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savageries

savageries is the plural of savagery.

Meaning of savagery

Noun

savagery (countable and uncountable, plural savageries)

  1. (uncountable) Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
    • “For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 172
  2. (countable) A violent act of cruelty.
  3. Savages collectively; the world of savages.
    • They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
  4. (uncountable) Wild growth of plants.
    • […] 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.1990, Brian Leverett, Water Gardens: Step-By-Step to Success, page 9

Questions about savageries

What is savageries the plural of?
Savageries is the plural of savagery.

Words near savageries in the dictionary

  1. savagedom
  2. savagely
  3. savageness
  4. savagenesses
  5. savager
  6. savageries
  7. savagerous
  8. savagers
  9. savagery
  10. savages
  11. savagess

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