savagery
Collocations
4VERB + SAVAGERY
don't, reverted, tolerate
SAVAGERY + NOUN
less
PREP.
along, in, in, with
ADV.
rapidly
Definitions
noun
Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity.
“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”
A violent act of cruelty.
Savages collectively; the world of savages.
They spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
Wild growth of plants.
[…] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it the man-made water gardens.
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Idioms & Phrases
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4“For some reason the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men.”
WiktionaryThey spring out of an element of diffused homosexuality which is at least as marked in civilization as it is in savagery.
Wiktionary[…] they […] made, amongst other features, lead ponds. With their departure these lands once more reverted to savagery; gardening, along with virtually all aspects of culture, disappeared and with it
WiktionaryI don't tolerate savagery, much less in a country that claims to be democratic.
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