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Definition of Brutalises
1. brutalise [v] - See also: brutalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutalises
Literary usage of Brutalises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revelation of Saint John Explained by Henry William Lovett (1831)
"which alone, here and hereafter, islamism brutalises the hopes and wishes of its
dupes. The animal, which announces its claim to the symbols of this seal, ..."
2. Outlines of Philosophy and Literature by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1867)
"The habit of yielding to our sensual tastes, the exclusive pursuit of material
enjoyments, enervates and brutalises us ; it, too, is an abstraction, ..."
3. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"... or by night work, a process which brutalises the adult workman, and ruins his
wife and children.1 Although this absence of regularity in the expenditure ..."
4. "The Kingdom of God is Within You": Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black Garnett (1894)
"It is not theft, nor robbery, nor murder, nor fornication, but falsehood, the
special falsehood of hypocrisy, which corrupts men, brutalises them and makes ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is the way a man brutalises when vice and crime make up the whole atmosphere
of his life. The devil has a man's heart all his own, whenever hope deserts ..."
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