imbrutement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

imbrute +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

imbrutement (uncountable)

  1. The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted.
    • 1834, Sir Egerton Brydges, The autobiography, times, opinions, and contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges:
      Imbrutement from low thoughts

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for imbrutement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)