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Definition of barbarism in English: barbarismnoun ˈbɑːbərɪz(ə)mˈbɑrbəˌrɪzəm mass noun1Absence of culture and civilization. the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism Example sentencesExamples - In fact, their absence would reduce us to barbarism and utter poverty.
- There is an insightful section on the Bolsheviks' fear of hooliganism and their tendency to link disorder and barbarism with popular culture.
- And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose barbarism to civilization.
- Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.
- Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse.
- The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than Downer implies.
- These notions when confronted with Jahangir's own interest in, possession and treatment of elephants give rise to a particular manifestation of the ideologies of barbarism and civilization.
- For the great Scottish skeptic, the oscillation between civilization and barbarism was coeval with human history; in ethical and political terms the future was bound to be much like the past.
- Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate barbarism and busy civilisation’.
- … There was much to be said for slavery as a transitional status between barbarism and civilization.
- It's a war between civilization and barbarism.
- It is a clash between barbarism and civilization: the outcome and consequences of which will not be limited to the military result in Iraq.
- You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism.
- The Daggian faith was based on the belief that an ancient man called Dagan had received divine insight to organize all mankind into countries and civilizations after centuries of barbarism.
- And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
- Ideas and culture are what differentiate civilization from barbarism, not the economy.
- As the parties seeking to destroy modern civilization and return to barbarism have put anti-Semitism at the top of their programs, this civilization is apparently a creation of the Jews.
- In the play's opposition of civilization and barbarism, Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.
- ‘Differences in social ethics only exist between civilization and barbarism, not between capitalism and socialism,’ Feng said.
- From the official perspective, the issue was simple: barbarism versus civilization.
- 1.1count noun A word or expression which is badly formed according to traditional philological rules, e.g. a word formed from elements of different languages, such as breathalyser (English and Greek) or television (Greek and Latin).
Example sentencesExamples - It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax.
- Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.
- For a 15-year-old, it was - to use a modern barbarism - totally incredible.
- For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more usual term in scholarly work.
Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
2Extreme cruelty or brutality. she called the execution an act of barbarism Example sentencesExamples - As a British Muslim I condemn this act of barbarism - it is wholly anti-Islamic.
- ‘For primary school children to have witnessed such an act of barbarism shows the men of violence have reached new levels of depravity,’ he said.
- The mistake Tim is making is trying to link the various forms of anti-Americanism and the specific act of barbarism which took place in New York City.
- Griffin said, ‘When it comes to the death penalty, I am passionate because we are so overwhelmed by cruelty and barbarism and most people feel the legal system doesn't work.’
- FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and barbarism hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.
- His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
- The EU utterly condemns the perpetrators and sponsors of these acts of barbarism.
- I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.
- The barbarism and cruelty of what Preston was describing is almost beyond belief.
- It was horrendous, and I don't see anything which could justify such acts of barbarism.
- That the Catholic Church's bureaucracy and some of its clergy have been responsible for and/or condoned acts of barbarism is beyond question.
- Cruelty was his escape from guilt; barbarism his act of denial.
- The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
- This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of barbarism, if there was any threat.
- This means that Australians are fighting with and in support of troops who routinely commit what we rightly regard as atrocities - acts of barbarism which are war crimes under Australian law.
- During medieval times acts of barbarism were accepted.
- With equal firmness we should demand of the Arab governments and the Arab media their condemnation of barbarism, brutality and terrorism in their own communities.
- But history was not done with Mianshan, and in 1940 the mountain was to suffer another act of barbarism.
- This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism, and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior.
- All peace loving Zambians must condemn such acts of barbarism.
Synonyms brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French barbarisme, via Latin from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein 'speak like a foreigner', from barbaros 'foreign'. Definition of barbarism in US English: barbarismnounˈbɑrbəˌrɪzəmˈbärbəˌrizəm 1Absence of culture and civilization. the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism Example sentencesExamples - And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
- These notions when confronted with Jahangir's own interest in, possession and treatment of elephants give rise to a particular manifestation of the ideologies of barbarism and civilization.
- In fact, their absence would reduce us to barbarism and utter poverty.
- There is an insightful section on the Bolsheviks' fear of hooliganism and their tendency to link disorder and barbarism with popular culture.
- Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse.
- ‘Differences in social ethics only exist between civilization and barbarism, not between capitalism and socialism,’ Feng said.
- It is a clash between barbarism and civilization: the outcome and consequences of which will not be limited to the military result in Iraq.
- The line between civilization and barbarism is much thinner than Downer implies.
- And yes, sometimes you fight to give people freedom only to discover that the people choose not to choose, or that they choose barbarism to civilization.
- Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.
- In the play's opposition of civilization and barbarism, Shakespeare tends to identify with the outsiders - and thus with the charges Voltaire was to level against him.
- Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate barbarism and busy civilisation’.
- From the official perspective, the issue was simple: barbarism versus civilization.
- As the parties seeking to destroy modern civilization and return to barbarism have put anti-Semitism at the top of their programs, this civilization is apparently a creation of the Jews.
- … There was much to be said for slavery as a transitional status between barbarism and civilization.
- For the great Scottish skeptic, the oscillation between civilization and barbarism was coeval with human history; in ethical and political terms the future was bound to be much like the past.
- Ideas and culture are what differentiate civilization from barbarism, not the economy.
- You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism.
- It's a war between civilization and barbarism.
- The Daggian faith was based on the belief that an ancient man called Dagan had received divine insight to organize all mankind into countries and civilizations after centuries of barbarism.
- 1.1 A word or expression that is badly formed according to traditional philological rules, for example a word formed from elements of different languages, such as breathalyzer (English and Greek) or television (Greek and Latin).
Example sentencesExamples - For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more usual term in scholarly work.
- Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.
- For a 15-year-old, it was - to use a modern barbarism - totally incredible.
- It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax.
Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
2Extreme cruelty or brutality. she called the execution an act of barbarism barbarisms from the country's past Example sentencesExamples - That the Catholic Church's bureaucracy and some of its clergy have been responsible for and/or condoned acts of barbarism is beyond question.
- As a British Muslim I condemn this act of barbarism - it is wholly anti-Islamic.
- With equal firmness we should demand of the Arab governments and the Arab media their condemnation of barbarism, brutality and terrorism in their own communities.
- It was horrendous, and I don't see anything which could justify such acts of barbarism.
- But history was not done with Mianshan, and in 1940 the mountain was to suffer another act of barbarism.
- Griffin said, ‘When it comes to the death penalty, I am passionate because we are so overwhelmed by cruelty and barbarism and most people feel the legal system doesn't work.’
- The barbarism and cruelty of what Preston was describing is almost beyond belief.
- I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.
- The EU utterly condemns the perpetrators and sponsors of these acts of barbarism.
- ‘For primary school children to have witnessed such an act of barbarism shows the men of violence have reached new levels of depravity,’ he said.
- Cruelty was his escape from guilt; barbarism his act of denial.
- FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and barbarism hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.
- The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
- All peace loving Zambians must condemn such acts of barbarism.
- During medieval times acts of barbarism were accepted.
- This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism, and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior.
- His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything that Danny's kidnappers claim to believe in.
- This means that Australians are fighting with and in support of troops who routinely commit what we rightly regard as atrocities - acts of barbarism which are war crimes under Australian law.
- This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of barbarism, if there was any threat.
- The mistake Tim is making is trying to link the various forms of anti-Americanism and the specific act of barbarism which took place in New York City.
Synonyms brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French barbarisme, via Latin from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner’, from barbaros ‘foreign’. |