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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"Barbarity feeds off antisemitism and spreads it," President Macron said.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

"Here is what Civilisation has done to Barbarity."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2015

His feelings seemed so very acute, and he himself so perfectly sincere in his moanings and groanings, that it was almost Barbarity to jeer at him.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

He had nothing of Barbarity in his Nature, but in all Points address’d himself as if his Education had been in some European Court.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague

The Falshood to Mrs. Loveit, and the Barbarity of Triumphing over her Anguish for losing him, is another Instance of his Honesty, as well as his Good-nature.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph




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