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countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms
A barbaric act. examples
The condition of existing barbarically. quotations examples
Like dancing, it is a remnant of ancient barbarism—fit for the days of the Chaldeans or the Babylonians, when people were only amused through their eyes—the sole entertainment of which savage nations are susceptible.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), pages 42–43
War is at best barbarism... Its glory is all moonshine.
1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy
A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots. examples
An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation. quotations examples
In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.
2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101