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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Barbarism \Bar"ba*rism\, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; 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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
barbarism
n : a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: {brutality}, {barbarity},
{savagery}]