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The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

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  1. n. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
  2. n. An inhuman act.
  3. n. the trait of extreme cruelty
  4. n. a brutal barbarous savage act
  5. 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. 2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.
  6. n:100 n. a brutal barbarous savage act