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Found 3 hits - Term: savagery, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
savagery \sav"agery\ ?; 277, n. f. sauvagerie.
   1. the state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
      1913 webster

            a like work of primeval savagery.     --c. kingsley.
      1913 webster

   2. an act of cruelty; barbarity.
      1913 webster

            the wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
            that ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
            presented to the tears of soft remorse. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. wild growth, as of plants. --shak.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
savagery
     n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty syn: ferociousness, brutality,
           viciousness, savageness
     2: a brutal barbarous savage act syn: brutality, barbarity,
         barbarism
see also:
ferociousness brutality viciousness savageness barbarity barbarism 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
81 moby thesaurus words for "savagery":
   gothicism, neanderthalism, acuteness, age of ignorance, animality,
   atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness,
   beastliness, benightedness, benightment, bestiality, bloodiness,
   bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness,
   brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, cruelness,
   cruelty, dark, dark age, darkness, destructiveness, extremity,
   ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force,
   furiousness, harshness, heathenism, ill breeding, impetuosity,
   impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity,
   intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness,
   paganism, philistinism, pitilessness, rigor, roughness,
   ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagism,
   severity, sharpness, terrorism, troglodytism, truculence,
   uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation,
   unculturedness, unenlightenment, ungentleness, unrefinement,
   vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence,
   wanton cruelty, wildness





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