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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The state or quality of being savage.

Wolves and bears, they say,
Casting their

savageness

aside have done
Like offices of pity.

Shakespeare

Noun.

Wildness; an untamed, uncultivated or uncivilized state; barbarism. Hence,

Cruelty; barbarousness.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savageness aside, have done like offices of pity.

savageness ‎(usually uncountable, plural savagenesses)

property of behaving savagely