| 单词 |
savageness |
| 释义 |
savageness|ˈsævɪdʒnɪs|
Also 7–8 salv-.
[f. savage a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being savage, uncivilized, barbarous, cruel, fierce.
α13..Sir Beues 2363 (MS. S.), I haue herde of [MS. N. in] sauagenes, Whenne ȝonge men were in wyldernes, Þat þey toke hert and hinde..; Þey slowen hem and soden hem in her hide; Þus doon men, þat in wood abyde. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. liv. 371 He [the vnruly bull] will become gentle, forgetting his naturall sauedgenes. 1604Shakes. Oth. iv. i. 200 She will sing the Sauagenesse out of a Beare. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. xxxiv. 261 He kissed my hand with such a savageness, that a redness remains upon it still. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt ii, When the latent savageness of his nature was thoroughly roused.
β1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 353 Leaving them by reason of their salvagenesse. 1701W. Nichols Consol. to Parents 8 A Salvageness and Ferity which the cruelest of Brutes are not subject to. |
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