单词 | brutification |
释义 | brutificationn. The action or process of rendering or becoming brutish or brute-like; the result of the action. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > brutalizing brutification1687 brutalization1797 imbruting1809 imbrutementa1837 1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. ii. 55 A Mate to converse with during the solitude of my Brutification. 1799 C. Lamb Let. 28 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 177 One of them which had more beast than the rest..faintly resembled one of your brutifications. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) iii. 194 This ultra-Circean..brutification of spirit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1687 |
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