Category:Savagery

Sav"age*ry, n. Etym: [f. sauvagerie.]

1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, that ever wall-eyed wrath or Staring rage presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak.

3. Wild growth, as of plants. Shak.