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barbarian
  1. (historical) a non-Greek or a non-Roman
  2. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
  3. (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
  4. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
  5. (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
  6. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.
  7. (pejorative) A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “The barbarian then declared that what was best in life was to crush his enemies and see them driven before him.”
      “He took her hand and kissed it, a delicate gesture for an uncultured barbarian.”
barbarity
  1. (uncountable) The state of being barbarous; brutality
  2. (countable) A barbaric act
  3. (uncountable) crudity
  4. (countable) A crude act
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The barbarity of the act outraged millions.”
      “Eleventh-century England is seen as intellectually isolated, rescued from barbarity only by Norman longships.”
      “The barbarity displayed by the merciless dictator shocked the world, as he ordered the torture and execution of innocent civilians.”
barbarism
  1. A barbaric act.
  2. The condition of existing barbarically.
  3. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The horrifying acts committed during the war were a stark reminder of the barbarism that can exist within humanity.”
      “I found your gross tongues disgusting in their barbarism, but still I learned them.”
      “We must draw a line now, or we will have normalized barbarism for the foreseeable future.”
barbarianism
  1. A primitive or simplistic ethos or societal condition; barbarism.
  2. Behaviour appropriate to a barbarian, that is uncivilized, brutal, or crude.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The barbarianism displayed by the warring factions was indicative of their complete disregard for human rights and civil order.”
      “The incident was neither a confrontation between nations nor one between civilization and barbarianism, but a fight between goodness and evil.”
      “If this barbarianism continues we will be compelled to defend the defenceless, and the best way of defence is to attack first.”
barbariousness
  1. (nonstandard) The state or quality of being barbarious.
barbarousness
  1. The state or quality of being barbarous.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.”
      “It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.”
      “Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.”
barbarianess
  1. (rare) female barbarian
barbarocracy
  1. Rule by barbarians.
barbarousnesses
barbarianisms
barbarianesses
  1. plural of barbarianess
barbarocracies
  1. plural of barbarocracy
barbarians
  1. plural of barbarian
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Only barbarians, he argued, would execute a man based upon this quality of testimony.”
      “During the Ming dynasty dragon robes were used as gifts to dignitaries and bribes to ward off northern barbarians like the Manchus.”
      “Barbarians, or rather some barbarians in the eyes of some Greeks, did not need images at all.”
barbarisms
  1. plural of barbarism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax.”
      “But there was also an impressive quantum of barbarisms, coloquialisms, double meanings, grammatical errors and anglicisms.”
      “Those who seemed most impatient of barbarisms, solecisms, and paralogisms in a sermon, seemed to easily tolerate them in their life and conversation.”
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