savagery

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Savagery was just a nuance away from virility, after all.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Savagery isn’t enough for a species, or a story to endure, and Tartakovsky argues that compassion is just as primal.

From The Verge • Oct. 7, 2019

Improbable escaped any problems after Savagery bolted to the outside going into the first turn.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2018

Savagery is in the eye of the beholder.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2012

Savagery a case not of degeneracy but of arrested or rather retarded development.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir