retaliation
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The Times of India editorialises that making rape equivalent to murder can lead to "further brutalisation and dehumanisation of society".
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2014
The transcripts also suggest that some of the best-known cliches are unfounded: most of the soldiers needed no period of "brutalisation" – they simply transferred their work ethic to their new tasks.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012
These laws not only fall short of a perfect morality, but they are distinctly and foully immoral, and tend directly to the brutalisation of the nation which should live under them.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood
It seemed more serious because this could not be fought as could be intellectual brutalisation.
From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel
If the life of the world is to be brutalised by her death, the rich must share that brutalisation with the poor.
From Hopes and Fears for Art by Morris, William
Vocabulary lists containing retaliation
Fahrenheit 451
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The Crucible
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The Hate U Give
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