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barbarism

[ bahr-buh-riz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.
the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.
such a form or construction:
Some people consider “complected” as a barbarism.

barbarism

/ ˈbɑːbəˌrɪzəm /

a brutal, coarse, or ignorant act
the condition of being backward, coarse, or ignorant
a substandard or erroneously constructed or derived word or expression; solecism
any act or object that offends against accepted taste

1570–80; < Latin barbarismus < Greek barbarismós foreign way of speaking. See barbarous, -ism

C16: from Latin barbarismus error of speech, from Greek barbarismos , from barbaros barbarous

“Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.

His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.

This war, said Poroshenko, is a “choice between civilization and barbarism.”

The difference now is that ISIS no longer depends on intermediaries to broadcast its barbarism.

“ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview.

A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.

This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.

Tis funny to be thus of two civilisations—or, if you like, of one civilisation and one barbarism.

Perhaps the influence of the Berber blood in the population helps to prolong this barbarism.

Every nation, even those which are but just emerging from barbarism, has its domestic animals.

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