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SAVAGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAVAGE  , a word by derivation meaning belonging to the wilds or forests (O . Fr.

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salvage, mod.sauvage,
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Late
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Lat. silvaticus,
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silva,
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wood,
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forest), hence
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wild, uncultivated,
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barbarian, and so used of races in an uncivilized or barbarous
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condition, or of animals or human beings generally, untamed, ferocious .

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