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Barbarousness

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bar·ba·rous  (bärbr-s)
adj.
1. Primitive in culture and customs; uncivilized.
2. Lacking refinement or culture; coarse.
3. Characterized by savagery; very cruel. See Synonyms at cruel.
4. Marked by the use or occurrence of barbarisms in spoken or written language.

[From Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros, non-Greek, foreign; see barbarism.]

barba·rous·ly adv.
barba·rous·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Barbarousness - the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumanebarbarousness - the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
inhumaneness, inhumanity - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others


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10) It was all great fun and of a class with humor in For Whom the Bell Tolls such as Rafael's ascending hyperbolic description of Pilar--first as "something barbarous," then "of such a barbarousness," and finally of "an unbelievable barbarousness.
Baudelaire's new draughtsmanship, it seems, is to be an art with a measure of artlessness: its childishness is elsewhere in the article connected with an appropriate barbarousness, which overlaps with the enfantine theme in a way that could be described as Rousseauesque, as the growth of the child into the man is the analogue for the evolution of man from the `savage' state into civilization.
All of the contributors are interested in the fictions of Irish barbarousness that were used to justify the English occupation of Ireland.
 
 
 
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