[f. BRUTAL a. + -ISM.] Brutal state, brutality.

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1803.  Bristed, Pedest. Tour, I. Introd. 9. The Norman soldiery … in the systematic uniformity of their brutalism.

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1831.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XLV. 439. Brought it from the lowest brutalism to the present degree of civilization.

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1876.  Gentl. Mag., 714. The fight with the brutalism of unbelief.

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