embruted
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]embruted
- simple past and past participle of embrute
Adjective
[edit]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 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.