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Definition of Brutalizes
1. brutalize [v] - See also: brutalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutalizes
Literary usage of Brutalizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1836)
"VICE brutalizes. WHAT use has he made of his soul Who (still on vices bent) Ne'er
strove his passions to control; But humouring them his life has spent ? ..."
2. A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified by Stephen W. Clark (1853)
"I brutalizes * i Passion—Subject of " degrades and brutalizes." Degrades - Brut
Man—Object of " degrades and brutalizes." Miscellaneous Examples, having ..."
3. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1875)
"... the complete overthrow of the execrable system that now brutalizes our brethren
in bondage, and brutalizes their oppressors, and disgraces our country. ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1861)
"-Slavery brutalizes the master even more than the servant. It professes that as
all blacks are ... Slavery brutalizes the master quite as much as the man. ..."
5. Sermons, lectures, and occasional discourses by Edward Irving (1828)
"surest inlet to vice and profligacy ; and though it be true that excessive labour
brutalizes human nature, it is no less true that complete idleness ..."