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beastliness|ˈbiːstlɪnɪs|
[f. beastly + -ness.]
Beastly quality; resemblance to a beast in various points, e.g. unintelligence, rudeness, brutality, cowardice, gluttony, drunkenness, filthiness; bestiality.
1370Lay-Folk's Mass-Bk. App. iii. 122 Alle beestelynesse of synne. c1440Promp. Parv. 33 Bestylynesse [1499 bestlynesse], bestialitas. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 110 Beestlynesse or rude maner. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 769 By their beastliness..they had like to haue made all the Army fly. a1618Raleigh To Son ix. in Rem. (1661) 102 A Drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastlinesse. 1751H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) II. 388 Whithed..had forgiven all his elder brother's beastliness. 1854Duff in Life xxi. (1881) 342 Such drunkenness, such beastliness, such unblushing shamelessness.
b. concr. = ‘beastly stuff.’
1834L. Hunt Lond. Jrnl. No. 8. 58 The ale too!..not the beastliness of these days. |