Imbrutes vs Imbrues - What's the difference?
imbrutes | imbrues |
(imbrute)
To make brutal
*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=The Caxtons, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions. }}
To degrade to the state of a brute
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=Various, title=The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1855, author=Daniel Drayton, title=Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton, chapter=, edition=
, passage=So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom! }}
*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Joseph Xavier Saintine, title=The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted , vegetating, deprived of his crown. }}
(imbrue)
To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
* 1837 : Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II,
As verbs the difference between imbrutes and imbrues
is that imbrutes is (imbrute) while imbrues is (imbrue).imbrutes
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*imbrues
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pages 275–276]([[w:Bentley's Miscellany, Richard Bentley])
- Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.