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Bestiality   /bɛstʃˈælɪti/   Listen
Bestiality

noun
1.
The stupid brutal quality of a beast.
2.
Sexual activity between a person and an animal.  Synonyms: zooerastia, zooerasty.






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"Bestiality" Quotes from Famous Books



... aimlessly at the first object that they could lay their hands upon, and proving far more of a hindrance than a help to their less intoxicated comrades; while there were some who had reached the final stage of bestiality, and were lying about the decks in a helpless condition of drunken stupor. Nothing more favourable for our scheme than this condition of general intoxication could possibly have happened, unless it were that Pedro was below, ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... gazed upon the degradation of woman and the unspeakable bestiality of man till that vile and dusty hell had ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... appointment? Does not every dictate of humanity and of reason point to the conclusion that the dawn of this knowledge should be invested with all that is tender, and loving, and pure, and sacred, instead of being shrouded in the mists of innuendo or blazoned forth in the shamelessness of bestiality? There is really no answer but one to such a question, and the plain truth is that fathers, perhaps still more mothers, must recognize the duty which lies upon them to teach their children, at such times, in such words, and with such reservations as the character of each child may ...
— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins

... Mary to prove her case are, it must be admitted, disagreeable, and the minor details too frequently revolting. The stories of Maria, Darnford, and Jemima are records of shame, crime, and human bestiality little less unpleasant than the realism of a Zola. It is an astonishing production, even for an age when Fielding and Smollett were not considered coarse. But, as was the case in the "Rights of Women," this plainness of speech was due not to a delight ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell



Words linked to "Bestiality" :   inhumanity, sex activity, sexual activity, inhumaneness, bestial, sexual practice, sex



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