单词 | barbarity |
释义 | barbarityn.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). < n.1570 |
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