Barbarism

Definitions

1. A barbaric act.
   countable, uncountable
2. The condition of existing barbarically.
   countable, uncountable
3. A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
   countable, uncountable
4. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue⟳; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.”

“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.”

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

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