barbarism
barbarism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abrupt
- abuse
- accent
- affectation
- affected
- ambiguity
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- artificial
- awkward
- babu
- bad
- barbarous
- black
- break
- brogue
- broken
- bull
- byword
- cacophony
- call
- cant
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- commit
- confusion
- corruption
- crude
- dialect
- dislocate
- dog
- double
- dry
- euphuism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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