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savagism

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Sav´a`gism
n.1.The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

savagism
the condition of having uncivilized or primitive qualities. — savagedom, n.
See also: Behavior


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Here's a quick compilation of Savagisms from an index kept by the liberal media watchdog Web site Media Matters: July 2003: Savage is fired from his short-lived MSNBC TV version of "The Savage Nation" two days after telling a caller who identified himself as gay: "Oh, you're one of the sodomites.
It is interesting to see how Irving presents them in static terms: they pose, rather than act; they are quite literally reified into images of savagism on the point of extinction.
With it we kill our beeves and our hogs, and cut off our fowls' heads: do all things in fact, of the sort with it, where others use an axe, or a knife, or that far east savagism, the thumb and finger.
 
 
 
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