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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
embrute .
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Examples
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Circe's venomed flagon embruted less than doth the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 Various
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Tom looked in vain, as the weary occupants of the shanties came flocking home, for a companionable face; he saw only sullen, embruted men and feeble, discouraged women; or, those who, treated in every way like brutes, had sunk to their level.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Shall grim carnage goad onward, embruted and base,
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And worst of all, embruted, and haggard, and aged childhood.
Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881
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Spare me that I may cleanse and sanctify myself and the members of Christ in me, which I have so often embruted and defiled.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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His master was too much embruted by his association with slavery, and the exercise of irresponsible power over the unfortunate ones under his control, to reward a faithful servant with kindness or decent treatment.
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The burden will probably grow so intolerable that the most embruted of citizens will ask themselves why they bear it, and
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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Some are able to keep on the slide longer than others, but I have seen scores -- hundreds -- stop miserably, and the very faces of the condemned men, with the last embruted look on them, are before me.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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The bulk of men are so sunken and embruted in animal tastes and sensuous desires and fleeting delights, that they have no care for the pure and calm joys which come to those who live near God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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