Barbarism
['bɑːbərɪz(ə)m] or ['bɑrbərɪzəm]
Definition
(n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
(n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
(n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Incivility, rudeness, savageness, Vandalism, Gothicism, barbarous state, uncivilized condition.[2]. Vulgarism, slang, unauthorized expression.
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Examples
- Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was not a barbarism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is the method of the taboo, as na?ve as barbarism, as ancient as human failure. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A little Athens in a vast barbarism--you wonder how much of Chicago Hull House can civilize. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That in those times of poverty and barbarism these were proportionably much cheaper than corn, is undoubtedly true. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the rush and hurry of modern life, we are inclined to go back to the days of barbarism, when real home life was unknown. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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