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单词 savagery
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Definition of savagery in English:

savagery

nounPlural savageries ˈsavɪdʒ(ə)riˈsævɪdʒri
mass noun
  • 1The quality of being fierce or cruel.

    a crime of the utmost savagery
    she was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were many revolts which were put down with incredible savagery.
    • Her heart torn from her chest, the townspeople believe that the only thing capable of such savagery is a wolf or a bear.
    • By its nature the submarine, unable to rescue its victims, brought a new savagery to a hitherto not very bloody form of war.
    • In its savagery, the massacre stages the white supremacist fantasy of genocide.
    • Then the murder of two Israeli boys stoned to death in what one headline called a crime of " biblical savagery ".
    • I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
    • There was intense savagery in the putting down of the Cathars.
    • The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey.
    • Now these mosques have either been destroyed by savagery of times or are under personal control of people who later occupied them.
    • We are never more than a single generation away from total savagery.
    • Christopher Tookey said the whole Protestant community was implicated in the gang's savagery.
    • At last people suspected of savagery in Nazi-occupied Europe faced prosecution in British courts.
    • The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
    • The savagery of some of these murders is worth a moment's pause.
    • The dog represented an extension, even a vanguard, of man's savagery.
    • Today's car bomb in Baghdad outside the Jordanian embassy which killed 11 people is obviously disturbing in its savagery.
    • The news of this savagery spread through the island.
    • Intercultural struggles, with their unbridled savagery, are the great nightmare of the next century. "
    • Throughout Eastern Europe, the end of WWII merely signified an exchange of tyrannies, with communist brutality rising to supersede Nazi savagery.
    • However, inborn savagery is not a Colombian trait.
    Synonyms
    brutality, ferocity, fierceness, violence, viciousness, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness
    rare ferity
  • 2(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) the condition of being primitive or uncivilized.

    without adult society, the children descend into savagery
    the progress of civilization over savagery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation?
    • After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
    • Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery.
    • White Americans began imagining African Americans as bestial examples of Africa's primitive savagery within the nation's borders.
    • The pig symbolised savagery, anarchy and destruction.
    • The very simplicity of his nakedness, the apparent savagery of it, the barbarian disregard for the niceties of twentieth century warfare, made him the number one target for German sharpshooters.
    • We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization.
    • Cultural associations between black and white, sin and purity, savagery and civilization, all conspired to fix subsaharan Africans into a symbolic category in polar opposition to lighter-skinned northwest Europeans.
    • How then does Churchward account for the archaeologists ' theory that man has struggled up from savagery to his present level?
    • Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
    • Eastman's depiction certainly seeks to contradict one prominent strain of thought at the end of the nineteenth century regarding the irredeemable savagery of American Indians, including, notably, Indian children.
    • Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.
    • In the male mythical imagination women are repeatedly associated with nature rather than culture, savagery rather than civilization, the wild rather than the tame.
    • Black people have long labored under the stigma of savagery.
    • In the case of Larry Talbot and his hirsute pals, these films suggested that only a thin line kept us from reverting to a state of animalistic savagery.
    • Thus Darwin may have employed the word "savagery" to describe the cultural level of non-Europeans.
    • When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
    • Soon after he enters the New World, the European sheds the skin of civilization, passes through a temporary condition of savagery, and finally appears as a completely new creature.
    • Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
    • We are well on the return path to savagery, to a society void of values, a veritable jungle in which only the strong survive and thrive.

Definition of savagery in US English:

savagery

nounˈsavijrēˈsævɪdʒri
  • 1The quality of being fierce or cruel.

    a crime of the utmost savagery
    she was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At last people suspected of savagery in Nazi-occupied Europe faced prosecution in British courts.
    • Intercultural struggles, with their unbridled savagery, are the great nightmare of the next century. "
    • Now these mosques have either been destroyed by savagery of times or are under personal control of people who later occupied them.
    • By its nature the submarine, unable to rescue its victims, brought a new savagery to a hitherto not very bloody form of war.
    • Her heart torn from her chest, the townspeople believe that the only thing capable of such savagery is a wolf or a bear.
    • However, inborn savagery is not a Colombian trait.
    • The news of this savagery spread through the island.
    • There were many revolts which were put down with incredible savagery.
    • Then the murder of two Israeli boys stoned to death in what one headline called a crime of " biblical savagery ".
    • The dog represented an extension, even a vanguard, of man's savagery.
    • I do my best to forgive him for savagery.
    • Today's car bomb in Baghdad outside the Jordanian embassy which killed 11 people is obviously disturbing in its savagery.
    • Christopher Tookey said the whole Protestant community was implicated in the gang's savagery.
    • In its savagery, the massacre stages the white supremacist fantasy of genocide.
    • We are never more than a single generation away from total savagery.
    • Throughout Eastern Europe, the end of WWII merely signified an exchange of tyrannies, with communist brutality rising to supersede Nazi savagery.
    • The savagery of some of these murders is worth a moment's pause.
    • The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey.
    • The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support.
    • There was intense savagery in the putting down of the Cathars.
    Synonyms
    brutality, ferocity, fierceness, violence, viciousness, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, inhumanity, heartlessness
  • 2(chiefly in historical or literary contexts) the condition of being primitive or uncivilized.

    without adult society, the children descend into savagery
    the progress of civilization over savagery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization.
    • After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
    • In the case of Larry Talbot and his hirsute pals, these films suggested that only a thin line kept us from reverting to a state of animalistic savagery.
    • Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
    • Cultural associations between black and white, sin and purity, savagery and civilization, all conspired to fix subsaharan Africans into a symbolic category in polar opposition to lighter-skinned northwest Europeans.
    • Soon after he enters the New World, the European sheds the skin of civilization, passes through a temporary condition of savagery, and finally appears as a completely new creature.
    • Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery.
    • We are well on the return path to savagery, to a society void of values, a veritable jungle in which only the strong survive and thrive.
    • Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
    • Black people have long labored under the stigma of savagery.
    • Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation?
    • Thus Darwin may have employed the word "savagery" to describe the cultural level of non-Europeans.
    • Eastman's depiction certainly seeks to contradict one prominent strain of thought at the end of the nineteenth century regarding the irredeemable savagery of American Indians, including, notably, Indian children.
    • The very simplicity of his nakedness, the apparent savagery of it, the barbarian disregard for the niceties of twentieth century warfare, made him the number one target for German sharpshooters.
    • Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.
    • In the male mythical imagination women are repeatedly associated with nature rather than culture, savagery rather than civilization, the wild rather than the tame.
    • When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
    • White Americans began imagining African Americans as bestial examples of Africa's primitive savagery within the nation's borders.
    • How then does Churchward account for the archaeologists ' theory that man has struggled up from savagery to his present level?
    • The pig symbolised savagery, anarchy and destruction.
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