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bruteness|ˈbruːtnɪs|
[f. brute a. + -ness.]
1. Rudeness, roughness, savageness, brutality.
1538Cdl. Pole in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. i. xxxviii. 457 The bruteness and danger of the thing. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 208 Crueltie in reuenging..brutenesse in rebelling..are the thinges that in warre are worthie to be blamed. 1883G. Macdonald D. Grant III. xxix. 282 The bruteness of the life he had hitherto led.
†2. Unintelligence, stupidity, dullness. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. viii. 12 Thou dotard vile, That with thy bruteness shendst thy comely age. 1594Sylvester Paradox agst. Lib. 591 'Tis in truth your brutenesse in misdeeming Things evill, that are good.
3. Want of consciousness, materiality. rare.
1836Emerson Nature 93 The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit. |