What does "barbarity" mean?
Barbarity: Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.
Additional senses
- 2.A barbarous or cruel act.
- 3.Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] Swift.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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