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noun

Barbarism n.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. "A heinous barbarism... against the honor of marriage."

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barbarism" Quotes from Famous Books

... all. I believe the Baptistery is the most restful place in Florence; and this is rather odd considering that it is all marble and mosaic patterns. But its shape is very soothing, and age has given it a quality of its own, and there is just that touch of barbarism about it such as one gets in Byzantine buildings to lend it a peculiar ...

— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas

... morality which Buddha preached for the first time to all classes of men, and look into the dark pages of his code of religious metaphysics, we can hardly find another explanation. Fortunately, the millions who embraced the doctrines of Buddha, and were saved by it from the depths of barbarism, brutality, and selfishness, were unable to fathom the meaning of his metaphysical doctrines. With them the Nirvana to which they aspired, became only a relative deliverance from the miseries of human life; nay, it took the bright colours of ...

— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller

... necessity of preserving a register of passing seasons and years would soon be felt, and the practice of recording important transactions must have grown up as a necessary consequence of social life. But of these deliberate early records a very small portion only has escaped the ravages of time and barbarism. ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... Africa. The progress of these discoveries being stopped by the Senate of Carthage, those who happened to be in the newly discovered countries, cut off from all communication with their countrymen, and being destitute of many of the necessaries of life, easily fell into a state of barbarism. ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... soldiers now in Pennsylvania remember such acts of cruelty and barbarism? Will not the Nansemond companies remember it? And will not that gallant boy in the 16th Regiment remember his mother's fate, and take vengeance on the enemy? Will not such a cruel race of people eventually reap the fruit of their doings? God ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

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