[f. BRUTAL a. + -ISM.] Brutal state, brutality.
1803. Bristed, Pedest. Tour, I. Introd. 9. The Norman soldiery in the systematic uniformity of their brutalism.
1831. Southey, in Q. Rev., XLV. 439. Brought it from the lowest brutalism to the present degree of civilization.
1876. Gentl. Mag., 714. The fight with the brutalism of unbelief.