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Definition of Embruted
1. embrute [v] - See also: embrute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embruted
Literary usage of Embruted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imported Americans: The Story of the Experiences of a Disguised American and by Brandenburg, Broughton (1904)
"As I told my husband when we came over, some of them are far less heavy and
embruted than one would think to look at them." I regret to say that woman is ..."
2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"... his embruted, crushed and bleeding fellow slaves, ml an extraordinary depth
of passion, together with that rare al- anco between passion and intellect, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"Irish, under unparalleled disadvantages and misfortunes, from becoming altogether
degraded and embruted." But we cannot follow Dr. Rigg through his very ..."
4. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... for half a century, and in which, had the rebellion not broken out at last,
the population must have been either exterminated or entirely embruted. ..."
5. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1922)
"... were regarded as so low and embruted that the Romans refused to have them for
slaves. The Anglo-Saxon is the dominant race today but tilings may change. ..."
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