embruted
English
Adjective
embruted (comparative more embruted, superlative most embruted)
- Brought to the level of a brute; brutalized.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and [[w:George Robinson (bookseller)|G[eorge]],] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter X, pages 32–33:
- [W]oman […] is required to moralize, ſentimentalize herſelf to ſtone, and pine her life away, labouring to reform her embruted mate.
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