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Webster 1913 Edition
Barbarism
Bar′ba-rism
(bär′bȧ-rĭz’m)
, Noun.
[L.
barbarismus
, Gr. βαρβαρισμός
; 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.
Definition 2025
barbarism
barbarism
English
Noun
barbarism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms)
- A barbaric act.
- These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
- The condition of existing barbarically.
- 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy
- War is at best barbarism... Its glory is all moonshine.
- 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy
- An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101
- In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.
- 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101
Translations
barbaric act
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condition of existing barbarically
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error in language use
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