barbarism
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bəˌrɪz
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| —n | |
| 1. | a brutal, coarse, or ignorant act |
| 2. | the condition of being backward, coarse, or ignorant |
| 3. | a substandard or erroneously constructed or derived word or expression; solecism |
| 4. | any act or object that offends against accepted taste |
| [C16: from Latin barbarismus error of speech, from Greek barbarismos, from barbaros | |
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Word Origin & History
barbarism
1570s, from Fr. barbarisme (13c.), from L. barbarismus, from Gk. 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" (1580s).
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Example sentences
Infanticide did not go out of fashion with the advance from savagery to barbarism and civilization.
Here, as in the contrary direction, one barbarism breeds another.
There you see the difference between the occasional horror of war and premeditated, conscious barbarism.
There is no excuse for linguistic barbarism, especially on the part of academics.
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