Defn: Brutish quality; brutality.
BRUTALITY
Bru*tal"i*ty, n.; pl. Brutalities. Etym: [Cf. F. brutalité.]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.
BRUTALIZATION
Bru`tal*i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
BRUTALIZE
Bru"tal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brutalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. brutaliser.]
Defn: To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
BRUTALIZE
Bru"tal*ize, v. i.
Defn: To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
[R.]
He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their
habits and manners. Addison.