Barbarism

(n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

(n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

(n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

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• Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was not a barbarism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It is the method of the taboo, as na?ve as barbarism, as ancient as human failure. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A little Athens in a vast barbarism--you wonder how much of Chicago Hull House can civilize. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That in those times of poverty and barbarism these were proportionably much cheaper than corn, is undoubtedly true. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the rush and hurry of modern life, we are inclined to go back to the days of barbarism, when real home life was unknown. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:惠特尼