barbarism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A barbaric act.

   These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

2. 2
   noun

   The condition of existing barbarically.

   Like dancing, it is a remnant of ancient barbarism—fit for the days of the Chaldeans or the Babylonians, when people were only amused through their eyes—the sole entertainment of which savage nations are susceptible.

3. 3
   noun

   An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

   In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

4. 4
   noun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

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