imbruting
English
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Adjective
imbruting (comparative more imbruting, superlative most imbruting)
- Brutalizing, degrading.
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 19:
- I shall not, however, dwell on the vices, though they be of the most contemptible and embruting cast, to which a sudden access of fortune gives birth […] .
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 19:
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