[f. next + -ATION.] a. The action or process of rendering or becoming brutal, or of lowering to the level of the brutes. b. A brutalized condition.
1797. Monthly Rev., XXIII. 572. It were desirable to know whether a nation which has the virtues of ignorance and poverty can preserve them without brutalization.
1863. Huxley, Man’s Place Nat., 110. We are told … that … the unity of origin of man and brutes involves the brutalization … of the former.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 19 Aug., 1. A change which might be not improperly described as brutalization.
1874. H. Spencer, Stud. Sociol., viii. 190. A certain brutalization has to be maintained during our passing phase of civilization.
