barbarism
IPA: bˈɑrbɝɪzʌm
noun
- A barbaric act.
- The condition of existing barbarically.
- A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
- An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
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Examples of "barbarism" in Sentences
- There was a national outrage over the barbarism.
- The state should meddle into such gruesome barbarism.
- The word cruelty and barbarism is synonymous with the Huns.
- It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism.
- Most religions began in barbarism and all have mostly grown up save one.
- Conan, representing barbarism, is either in conflict or competition with them.
- ROMANS: He says that George Bush and the United States government are engaged in what he calls barbarism in Iraq.
- Answering crime with crime, or barbarism with barbarism, is neither in the definition nor even in the interest of States.
- The results of their barbarism is evident in the limited scope they are able to exercise it, but you are too blinded by your own mythology to put it in perspective.
- Scarlet Plague, The (1912) The relapse of civilization into barbarism is a theme which, as those familiar with London's style will at once see, is admirably suited to his powers as a novelist.
- Will to power should not be confused with political power, which Nietzsche called barbarism (Kaufmann, "The Discovery of Will to Power," in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 232-242).
- I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although
- Such questions demand either simple and brutal answers (Yes, they should!) or an understanding that wars and other struggles must be historically differentiated — that participation may be an act of complicity in barbarism or an inevitability as occasioned by civil war, for example.