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/pjˈudʒəlɪzəm/ Listen

Pugilism

noun

Fighting with the fists. Synonyms: boxing, fisticuffs.

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"Pugilism" Quotes from Famous Books

... is by no means wholly worked out of the blood even yet. The taste for pugilism, or the pummelling of the human frame into a jelly by the force of fisticuffs, as a form of enjoyment or entertainment, is a relapse into barbarism. It is the instinct of the tiger still surviving in the white cat transformed into the princess. I will not call it, young gentlemen, the fond return ...

— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis

... Joe recognized the trained step of the professional boxer. The other's identity now came to him, although he was no follower of pugilism, a sport largely out of favor since the rapid growth of Telly scanned fracases. Boxing at its top had never been more than an inadequate replacement of the games once held ...

— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds

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