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单词 barbarity
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barbarityn.

/bɑːˈbarɪti/
Forms: In 1500s -itie.
Etymology: < Latin barbarus barbarous adj. + -ity suffix: not in Latin or French.
1. = barbarism n. 2. Obsolete or archaic. (The earliest sense, taking place of the earlier barbarie, and now in its turn superseded by barbarism.)
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiii/1 Barbaritie, barbaries.
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B From base corruption and barbarity.
a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) iii. §xiii. 306 That wretched Barbarity in which the Romans found our Ancestors.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 30 Sept. (1992) II. 96 A Nation just rising from barbarity.
1819 R. Chapman Life James V 89 At this time..barbarity and ignorance had not overspread Scotland.
2.
a. Barbarous or savage cruelty, such as is alien to civilization; inhumanity. (The usual sense.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > barbaric
Turkishness1545
barbarousness1548
barbariousnessa1568
barbarism1603
ferity1614
Moorism1620
barbarity1685
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 197 The barbarity whereof will be more supportable than the fierce and haughty humour of these men.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 202 With Breach of Faith, and with Cruelty and Barbarity.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 95 When defenceless women..and even babes, are made the victims of their shocking barbarity.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/1 I have seen some cases of horrible barbarity.
b. with plural. An act of barbarous cruelty.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > barbaric > act or instance of
barbarity1720
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 262 Might I..these Barbarities repay!
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) II. 13 He had borne lesser Barbarities.
1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. i. 3 These two extraordinary men rivalled or exceeded Attila in their wholesale barbarities.
3. Of language: = barbarism n. 1, and 1b ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > corrupt language > condition of being
barbarousness1549
barbarism1578
barbarity1706
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > corrupt language > corrupt form
barbarism1589
corruption1699
barbarity1706
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]
roughnessa1398
beggarliness1542
crabbedness1546
barbarousness1549
grossness1563
rusticity1565
barbarism1578
inconcinnity1616
ungracefulness1658
incuriosity1661
incomptness1669
uncouthness1672
unpoliteness1684
barbarity1706
inelegance1726
inelegancy1727
scabrousness1727
asperity1779
crudity1885
ineloquence1894
1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 39 He always uses Latine Terms and avoids Barbarity.
1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 32 To quit their Simplicity of Style for affected Refinements..which ended by degrees in many Barbarities.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 471 We have our monstrous, prodigious, vast, shocking, devilish, at every turn: are we not driving towards Barbarity?
4.
a. Barbarism of style in art.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally
decoruma1568
humoura1568
variety1597
strength1608
uniformity1625
barbarity1644
freedom1645
boldness1677
correctness1684
clinquant1711
unity1712
contrast1713
meretriciousness1727
airiness1734
pathos1739
chastity1760
vigour1774
prettyism1789
mannerism1803
serio-comic1805
actuality1812
largeness1824
local colour1829
subjectivitya1834
idealism1841
pastoralism1842
inartisticalitya1849
academicism1852
realism1856
colour contrast1858
crampedness1858
niggling1858
audacity1859
superreality1859
literalism1860
pseudo-classicism1861
sensationalism1862
sensationism1862
chocolate box1865
pseudo-classicality1867
academism1871
actualism1872
academicalism1874
ethos1875
terribilità1877
local colouring1881
neoclassicism1893
mass effect1902
attack1905
verismo1908
kitsch1921
abstraction1923
self-consciousness1932
surreality1936
tension1941
build-up1942
sprezzatura1957
1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 107 When architecture was but newly recovered from the Gothic barbarity.
b. with plural. An instance of want of artistic culture.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > lack of art
manufacture1688
barbarity1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §27. 215 To shame by the beauty of her structures the comparative barbarities of Art.
1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen I. i. 21 The oak panelling was painted white, a barbarity on the part of..the West End decorators.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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