Definition of barbarism

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Barbarism (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

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Back :: Back (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism..
Heathenism :: Heathenism (n.) The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..
Rebarbarize :: Rebarbarize (v. t.) To reduce again to barbarism.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..
Gothicize :: Gothicize (v. t.) To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
Voodooism :: Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism..
Incivilization :: Incivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.
Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness..
Uncivilization :: Uncivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
Chaste :: Chaste (a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art..
Barbarousness :: Barbarousness (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
Vandalic :: Vandalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage..
Barbarity :: Barbarity (n.) Barbarism; impurity of speech.
Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
Semibarbarism :: Semibarbarism (n.) The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
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