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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

Noun.

The state of rude uncivilized men; the state of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

The greater part of modern philosophers have declared for the original savagism of men.

savagism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural savagisms)