[f. BRUTIFY; see -FICATION (cf. personification).] The action or process of rendering or becoming brutish or brute-like; the result of the action.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Bergerac’s Com. Hist., II. 55. A Mate to converse with during the solitude of my Brutification.
1799. Lamb, Lett., v. 41. One of them which had more beast than the rest … faintly resembled one of your brutifications.
1880. Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., iii. (ed. 2), 194. This ultra-Circean … brutification of spirit.
