Definition for SAV'AGE-NESS

SAV'AGE-NESS, n.

  1. Wildness; an untamed, uncultivated or uncivilized state; barbarism. Hence,
  2. Cruelty; barbarousness. Wolves and bears, they say, / Casting their savageness aside, have done / Like offices of pity. – Shak.

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