Definitions for barbarism

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barbarism bar·ba·rism

Spelling: [bahr-buh-riz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm/

Barbarism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 253 anagrams from letters in barbarism (aabbimrrs).

Definitions for barbarism

noun

1. a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition.
2. a barbarous act; something belonging to or befitting a barbarous condition.
3. the use in a language of forms or constructions felt by some to be undesirably alien to the established standards of the language.
4. such a form or construction:

Origin of barbarism

1570-80; Latin barbarismus Greek barbarismós foreign way of speaking. See barbarous, -ism

Examples for barbarism

He had all their virtues, and a considerable share of their barbarism.

Is it also genius and a classic work about the struggle between civilization and barbarism, between good and evil?

“barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.

Thank God, my darling, with all our barbarism, we have not come to that in Ireland.'

His sexual life, just like his barbarism, was the result of deliberation, not appetites run amok.

They rescued the people from barbarism, and uplifted the standard of the cross.

The difference now is that ISIS no longer depends on intermediaries to broadcast its barbarism.

In the barbarism of those times dueling was a common practice.

A Hottentot would not have been guilty of this sort of barbarism.

This war, said Poroshenko, is a “choice between civilization and barbarism.”