Barbarism

n.	1.	An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
	2.	A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. - Milton.
	3.	An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. - G. Campbell.

Noun

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barbarism - a brutal barbarous savage act Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery

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