Thesaurus: barbarism

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1. n. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
2. n. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
3. n. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
4. n. a brutal barbarous savage act
5. 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.
6. n:100 n a brutal barbarous savage act