savagenessn.

Brit.

/ˈsavᵻdʒnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈsævᵻdʒnᵻs/

Forms:

α. Middle English sauagenes, 1500s–1600s sauagenesse, 1600s sauagnesse, 1600s sauedgenes, 1600s savagnes, 1600s– savageness.

β. 1600s salvagenesse, 1600s saulvagenesse, 1700s– salvageness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: savage adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < savage adj. + -ness suffix.

The quality or state of being savage; barbarity, ferocity, cruelty; (also) an instance of this; = savagery n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun]

rethenesseOE

grimcundleȝcc1175

fellhead1340

ferteec1380

fiercenessc1384

savagenessa1400

grimliness14..

fellnessc1410

bestialitya1413

fierceheadc1440

cruelness?a1475

inhumanity1477

bremeness?1529

fury1534

tigerness1535

bruteness1538

immanity1539

wolvishness?1548

ferity?c1550

brutishness1567

truculency1569

Phalarism1581

ferocity1606

savagerya1616

brutality1633

inhumanness1649

wolfishness1676

boarishness1682

brutism1687

truculence1727

ferociousness1766

bestialism1824

tigerhood1846

Calibanism1859

unhumanness1885

inhumanism1907

Hunnishness1914

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun]

rethenesseOE

crueltyc1230

cruelnessa1400

savagenessa1400

cruelc1440

crudelity1483

savagec1487

savagerya1616

reluctationa1625

fellness1678

heartlessness1891

α.

a1400 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Egerton) l. 2363 I haue herde of [1457 Naples in] sauagenes, Whenne ȝonge men were in wyldernes, Þat þey toke hert and hinde And other bestes,..slowen hem and soden hem in her hide; Þus doon men, þat in wood abyde.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 62 Greatnesse of corage, seuered from common feloushippe, and neybourhod of men, muste needes bee a certein sauagenesse, and beastly crueltie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 185 Shee will sing the sauagenesse out of a Beare.

1650 T. Thorowgood Iewes in Amer. i. viii. 27 Surely the savages could not have outstripped the Spaniards in barbarous savagenesses.

1697 Surey Demoniack 17 Thy Monstrous Savageness towards this poor Youth.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxvi. 143 He kissed my hand with such a savageness, that a redness remains upon it still.

1789 E. Rigby Let. 11 Aug. (1880) 64 An idea of savageness and ferocity was impressed on the spectators.

1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour ii. 93 Witnessing the savageness of cannibalism, and a thousand other acts of horror.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 66 When the latent savageness of his nature was thoroughly roused.

1911 J. W. Linn in Poems Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, & Keats p. xlvii The real reason for the savageness of the review..was not the badness of Endymion, but the fact that Leigh Hunt and Keats were friends.

1932 Rhythm Jan. 54/2 The introduction certainly is savage. The savageness, however, wears off very soon.

1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 107 The true proportions of the savageness of the world.

2005 Daily News (Galveston, Texas) 19 Sept. 1/2 The initial accounting from Hurricane Andrew in Florida underestimated the savageness of that storm.

β. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 4 (margin) A Digression, touching the Piracie & Robberies of old time; with other Notes of Saulvagenesse.1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 353 Leaving them by reason of their salvagenesse [Fr. ferocité].1701 W. Nicholls Treat. Consol. Parents 8 A Salvageness and Ferity which the cruelest of Brutes are not subject to.1726 B. Bennet's Presbyterian Prejudice further Display'd 97 Surely no tyrant Salvageness could ever have spilt half so much Blood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	savageness
释义	savagenessn. Brit. /ˈsavᵻdʒnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsævᵻdʒnᵻs/ Forms: α. Middle English sauagenes, 1500s–1600s sauagenesse, 1600s sauagnesse, 1600s sauedgenes, 1600s savagnes, 1600s– savageness. β. 1600s salvagenesse, 1600s saulvagenesse, 1700s– salvageness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: savage adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < savage adj. + -ness suffix. The quality or state of being savage; barbarity, ferocity, cruelty; (also) an instance of this; = savagery n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] rethenesseOE grimcundleȝcc1175 fellhead1340 ferteec1380 fiercenessc1384 savagenessa1400 grimliness14.. fellnessc1410 bestialitya1413 fierceheadc1440 cruelness?a1475 inhumanity1477 bremeness?1529 fury1534 tigerness1535 bruteness1538 immanity1539 wolvishness?1548 ferity?c1550 brutishness1567 truculency1569 Phalarism1581 ferocity1606 savagerya1616 brutality1633 inhumanness1649 wolfishness1676 boarishness1682 brutism1687 truculence1727 ferociousness1766 bestialism1824 tigerhood1846 Calibanism1859 unhumanness1885 inhumanism1907 Hunnishness1914 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] rethenesseOE crueltyc1230 cruelnessa1400 savagenessa1400 cruelc1440 crudelity1483 savagec1487 savagerya1616 reluctationa1625 fellness1678 heartlessness1891 α. a1400 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Egerton) l. 2363 I haue herde of [1457 Naples in] sauagenes, Whenne ȝonge men were in wyldernes, Þat þey toke hert and hinde And other bestes,..slowen hem and soden hem in her hide; Þus doon men, þat in wood abyde. 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 62 Greatnesse of corage, seuered from common feloushippe, and neybourhod of men, muste needes bee a certein sauagenesse, and beastly crueltie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 185 Shee will sing the sauagenesse out of a Beare. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Thorowgood Iewes in Amer. i. viii. 27 Surely the savages could not have outstripped the Spaniards in barbarous savagenesses. 1697 Surey Demoniack 17 Thy Monstrous Savageness towards this poor Youth. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxvi. 143 He kissed my hand with such a savageness, that a redness remains upon it still. 1789 E. Rigby Let. 11 Aug. (1880) 64 An idea of savageness and ferocity was impressed on the spectators. 1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour ii. 93 Witnessing the savageness of cannibalism, and a thousand other acts of horror. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 66 When the latent savageness of his nature was thoroughly roused. 1911 J. W. Linn in Poems Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, & Keats p. xlvii The real reason for the savageness of the review..was not the badness of Endymion, but the fact that Leigh Hunt and Keats were friends. 1932 Rhythm Jan. 54/2 The introduction certainly is savage. The savageness, however, wears off very soon. 1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 107 The true proportions of the savageness of the world. 2005 Daily News (Galveston, Texas) 19 Sept. 1/2 The initial accounting from Hurricane Andrew in Florida underestimated the savageness of that storm. β. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 4 (margin) A Digression, touching the Piracie & Robberies of old time; with other Notes of Saulvagenesse.1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 353 Leaving them by reason of their salvagenesse [Fr. ferocité].1701 W. Nicholls Treat. Consol. Parents 8 A Salvageness and Ferity which the cruelest of Brutes are not subject to.1726 B. Bennet's Presbyterian Prejudice further Display'd 97 Surely no tyrant Salvageness could ever have spilt half so much Blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400
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