Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being a barbarian.
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- noun A
primitive , less advanced, orsimplistic ethos or societal condition;barbarism . - noun
Behaviour appropriate to abarbarian , that isuncivilized ,brutal , orcrude .
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Examples
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I have never read Conan and I don't want to (because epic barbarianism is not my genre), but I suspect if I did I would probably think it was funny in a pathetic way, remember that it is a product of its time, put it back on the shelf, and point and laugh at people who read it.
hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse intertribal 2010
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I have never read Conan and I don't want to (because epic barbarianism is not my genre), but I suspect if I did I would probably think it was funny in a pathetic way, remember that it is a product of its time, put it back on the shelf, and point and laugh at people who read it.
intertribal: hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse intertribal 2010
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Leaders of the Nato parliamentary assembly have defended military actions in Afghanistan as a battle against "barbarianism".
unknown title 2009
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We all have been receiving pictures of beheaded bodies and acts of barbarianism from both Sunni and Shia friends.
Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Prachinar, The Valley Of Death 2009
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In an earlier time, when people were still struggling to a civilized level that spurned the eating of animal flesh; to a level that had learned not to impose its peculiar standards on any other species; to a level that accepted, as a matter of course, the friendships and associations with beings diverse and wonderful: a woman of only three hundred years ago would have had some occasion to cope with utter barbarianism.
Cattle Town 2010
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The most we can do is remember Natalya Estemirova and believe that one day humaneness will be rated higher than barbarianism.
Oleg Kozlovsky: Killers of Russian Human Rights Activists Will Not Be Punished 2009
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If they or their battered bodies show up one day, what grounds will we have in charging anyone with barbarianism?
Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers 2006
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Thank you for amusing me with the rants of a sociopath who tries to justify his/her/its barbarianism.
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Our society is quickly devolving into barbarianism again.
The Formal Home 2006
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Then KL crows [Ev. Standard] about art - '. .they know that they'll get barbarianism with Boris in ...'
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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