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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.