Barbarism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BARBARISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being a barbarian
• absence of culture and civilization
• 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).
• extreme cruelty or brutality
• condition of being backward or ignorant
• An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
• A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
• An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
• a brutal barbarous savage act
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a barbarian or barbarous social or intellectual condition; backwardness; the practice or display of barbarian acts, attitudes, or ideas

Words related to BARBARISM

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Words that contain BARBARISM

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How to use BARBARISM in a sentence

• He would now ask them, what right they had to suppose that Africa would for ever remain in a state of barbarism.
• The countries of Europe relapsed into a sullen barbarism.
• It is a terrible experience to take a rabbit or any other animal out of one of these relics of barbarism.
• The poor were sunk in ignorance and barbarism, and the aristocracy was honeycombed by profligacy.
• One wonders what the Germans would have done had they been fighting, not a war of defence and civilisation, but a war of conquest and barbarism.
• And he united, he displayed all these merits in a time of general and monotonous barbarism, when, save in the Church, the minds of men were dull and barren.
• In the north-east, between the Rhine, the Scheldt, and the Loire, Christianity had been obliged to deal with little more than the barbarism and ignorance of the German conquerors.
• But regions of administered barbarism occur not only in Africa.
• The time will come when society will look back on the doctrine, that they who serve the altar should live by the altar, as a doctrine of barbarism and degradation.
• It is a perpetual effort to get above the simplicity of barbarism.
• They were in an alien land, in an essentially slow process of transition from barbarism to civilization.
• The barbarism of the Caesars, the barbarism of Islam, the barbarism of Odin and Thor, all in turn did their uttermost to destroy the new religion.
• This selfishness wars against disinterested imagination in all directions, and, evils coming round in a circle, barbarism spreads in every quarter of our island.
• Every man who is able to hold a gun, he said, must come to the help of civilization against barbarism.
• But from barbarism arises the sympathetic magic of agriculture, which the lowest races do not practise.
• This would seem to involve a new kind of barbarism.
• The two actual, historic Macbeths were no worse than innumerable other couples in other lands that had not yet fully struggled out of barbarism.
• With Lord Herbert he held that barbarism has ever been the condition of greatest moral power.
• The great style of art represented by the preceding period does not at once degenerate into barbarism.
• It must always be difficult to estimate exactly the length of time needful for a race as gifted as were the Ancient Egyptians to rise from barbarism into a high degree of culture.
• They show how men could pass pleasant and thoughtful days amid the barbarism of the time.
• He felt ashamed of his own rudeness and of the barbarism of his people.
• The Life of Reason is continually beaten back upon its animal sources, and nations are submerged in deluge after deluge of barbarism.
• It has not been for want of keen senses, or personal genius, or a constant order in the outer world, that mankind have fallen back repeatedly into barbarism and superstition.
• Every phase of civilisation or barbarism creates its own conversational currency.
• This Western Continent, under God, may it please the despots, is not going to barbarism and desolation.
• With all nations advancing from barbarism, the process has ever been slow by which the civil authority has been separated from the military.
• Thus the succession of Elizabeth was, in fact, a counter revolution, arresting the progress of reform and moving Russia back again toward the ancient barbarism.
• The half will never be told of the barbarism of Slavery.
• No such will ever exist again, unless science should lose its grip on the human mind and the civilized life subside into barbarism.

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