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Barbarism

Barbarism Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Barbarism? [n] a brutal barbarous savage act Synonyms \| Synonyms for Barbarism: barbarity \| brutality \| savagery Related Terms \| Find terms related to Barbarism: age of ignorance \| animality \| antiphrasis \| bad taste \| barbarity \| barbarousness \| benightedness \| benightment \| bestiality \| bombasticness \| brutality \| brutishness \| cacology \| cacophony \| clumsiness \| coarseness \| colloquialism \| corruption \| crudeness \| cumbrousness \| dark \| dark age \| darkness \| dysphemism \| error \| foreignism \| Gothicism \| gracelessness \| grossness \| harshness \| heathenism \| heaviness \| ill breeding \| ill-balanced sentences \| impoliteness \| impropriety \| impurity \| incivility \| inconcinnity \| incorrectness \| indecorousness \| inelegance \| inelegancy \| infelicity \| Irish bull \| lack of finish \| lack of polish \| lapse \| leadenness \| localism \| malaprop \| malapropism \| misconstruction \| missaying \| misusage \| misuse \| Neanderthalism \| neologism \| paganism \| philistinism \| pompousness \| ponderousness \| poor diction \| roughness \| rudeness \| savagery \| savagism \| sesquipedalianism \| sesquipedality \| shibboleth \| slang \| slip \| slipshod construction \| solecism \| spoonerism \| stiltedness \| taboo word \| tastelessness \| troglodytism \| turgidity \| uncivilizedness \| uncouthness \| uncultivatedness \| uncultivation \| unculturedness \| unenlightenment \| uneuphoniousness \| ungracefulness \| ungrammaticism \| unrefinement \| unseemliness \| unwieldiness \| vernacularism \| vulgarism \| vulgarity \| wildness See Also \| atrocity \| inhumanity Barbarism In Webster's Dictionary \Bar"ba*rism\, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; cf. F. barbarisme.] 1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. --Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. --Milton. 3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See {Solecism}. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. --G. Campbell.

Barbarism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Barbarism?

[n] a brutal barbarous savage act

Synonyms | Synonyms for Barbarism: barbarity | brutality | savagery

See Also | atrocity | inhumanity

Barbarism In Webster's Dictionary

\Bar"ba*rism\, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; cf. F.
barbarisme.]
1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners;
   ignorance of arts, learning, and literature;
   barbarousness. --Prescott.

2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

         A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of
         marriage.                             --Milton.

3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form
   of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular
   language. See {Solecism}.

         The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign
         term in any of their writers with the odious name of
         barbarism.                            --G. Campbell.

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