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Definition of Barbarism

Barbarism
Barbarism Bar"ba*rism, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; 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.

Meaning of Barbarism from wikipedia

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- The Civilization and Barbarism was a dichotomy used during the Argentine Civil War by the Unitarian Party. The dichotomy can be found in books such as...
- Socialism or Barbarism is a book about globalism, U.S. socialism and capitalist systems by Hungarian Marxist philosopher and economist István Mészáros...
- Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (original Spanish title: Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie) is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento...
- Socialism or Barbarism is a 2001 book about globalism, U.S. socialism and capitalist systems by Hungarian Marxist philosopher and economist István Mészáros...
- Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism is a 2008 book by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Benjamin Moser. In this book, Lévy argues that...
- The twin relics of barbarism refer to the po****r nineteenth-century phrase that linked the practices of slavery and polygamy in the United States. Attention...
- into Barbarism. Luxemburg attributed her statement to Friedrich Engels, but as was shown by Michael Löwy, Engels had used not the term "Barbarism" but...