Bar"ba*rism (bär"b&adot;*r&ibreve;z'm), n. [L. barbarismus, Gr.
barbarismo`s; cf. F.
barbarisme.]
1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.
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.
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