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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Barbarities

[From

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

Treating Christians with a

barbarity

which would have shocked the very Moslem.

Macaulay.

A barbarous or cruel act.

Barbarism; impurity of speech.

[Obs.]

Swift.

Noun.

[See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]