houyhnhnm

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  1. One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

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  1. one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift

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  • We are afraid that B——hath been guilty of that crime, that you (like a houyhnhnm) have treated him as a yahoo, and discarded him your service. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
 

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