barbarousness
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Few constructions, though, can match “bleisure” for barbarousness.
From Economist ● Jun. 13, 2017
In a famous speech made soon afterwards, he charged the king's nephew, Prince Rupert, with gross "inhumanity and barbarousness" during the course of the battle.
From Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
As MERCURY, by his eloquence, reclaimed men from their barbarousness and cruelty: so ORPHEUS, by his music, subdued fierce beasts and wild birds.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
"Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."
From English literary criticism by Various
His grotesque figure and dress, representing, so it seems to me at the moment, a speck of civilization among the barbarousness of my surroundings, is quite a relief to the senses.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
