Crossword clues for barbarism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbarism \Bar"ba*rism\ (b[aum]r"b[.a]*r[i^]z'm), n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. barbarismo`s; cf. F. barbarisme.]
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
--Prescott.-
A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage.
--Milton. -
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "uncivilized or rude nature," from French barbarisme (13c.), from Latin barbarismus, from Greek barbarismos "foreign speech," from barbarizein "to do as a foreigner does" (see barbarian). Only of speech in Greek, Latin, and French; sense extended in English to "uncivilized condition."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A barbaric act. 2 The condition of existing barbarically. 3 An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Barbarism may refer to:
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Barbarian society
- primitive culture, which has never been civilized.
- societal collapse, which used to be civilized.
- Barbarism (linguistics), non-standard word or expression.
A barbarism is a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is an error in syntax. The term is used mainly for the written language. With no accepted technical meaning in modern linguistics, the term is little used by descriptive scientists.
Usage examples of "barbarism".
There was a second call for Pewamo as Villiers, in search of Torve, came upon Admiral Beagle jumping up and down and yelling about barbarism, and Torve blandly nodding in time to his jumps.
Whatever opinions may be formed of the monastic orders in relation to the present, this much is certain, that they were the chief civilizers of Europe, and the chief agents in delivering European society from feudal barbarism.
On the other hand, there was about them, Anne felt, something essentially alien to her instinctively modern ideas--the very type of countenance, with its fatalistic expression, the mingling amongst them of civilisation and barbarism, the beauty and coarseness, the ignorance and yet culture of a primitive sort, the superstition which for ages had dominated the nation, confining it within the narrow precincts of this rock refuge--all revolted her.
I have ranked feudalism under the head of barbarism, rejected every species of political aristocracy, and represented the English constitution as essentially antagonistic to the American, not as its type.
Romans abhorred eunuchs, flagellatory rites, and what was considered religious barbarism.
I have been reading in every left-wing paper the same type of gobbledygook that I find in your speeches talking about the barbarism of the committees, the same Salem witch-hunts.
If they only knew how infinitely barbarous they seem to us in their naive contempt of our barbarism, and in what we regard as their infantine concern with things as they are.
The classic tendency of Terminal Adult species to impose its over-specialized dinosaur models on all other neurogenetic forms was then exposed as genetic barbarism.
The independent Britons appear to have relapsed into the state of original barbarism, from whence they had been imperfectly reclaimed.
Hans Castorp, as though somewhere between two intolerable positions, between bombastic humanism and analphabetic barbarism, must be something which one might personally call the human.
Hungarians, who replunged the western countries of Europe into their former state of anarchy and barbarism.
We believe that medicine is undergoing a gradual change from the darkness of the past, with its ignorance, superstition, and barbarism, to the light of a glorious future.
But the Apulians are not barbarians, and what you describe is pure barbarism.
For generations Benedictinism was the principal antidote to barbarism.
I would convince myself that I respected the Bloodletters as true men, because their ritual reeks of barbarism and the Braxana venerate barbarism.