barbarian
noun
a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
barbarianism
-
a word derived from
barbarian.
Example Sentences
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Premier Gentiloni tweeted Friday that “Italy remembers Bruno Gulotta and Luca Russo and gathers tight around their families. Freedom will conquer the barbarianism of terrorism.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2017
At The New Yorker, it is a copy editor’s duty to deploy the serial comma, along with lots of other lip-smacking bits of punctuation, as a bulwark against barbarianism.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2017
Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education.
From Time Magazine Archive
When all social restraints are abandoned, and instinctive impulses are allowed full sway, there is danger of return to barbarianism.
From Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League Of Nations (1919) in connection with International Psychology and Revolutions by Arthur Mac Donald
Not until then will it be possible to show in their true light both the transition from barbarianism to civilization and the striking contrast between them.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
