barbarism

Definitions

1. 1

   A barbaric act.

   • These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.
2. 2

   The condition of existing barbarically.

   • Like dancing, it is a remnant of ancient barbarism—fit for the days of the Chaldeans or the Babylonians, when people were only amused through their eyes—the sole entertainment of which savage nations are susceptible.
   • War is at best barbarism... Its glory is all moonshine.
3. 3

   A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.

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   1. 4

      An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

      • In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

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