2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
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Treating Christians with a barbarity which would
have shocked the very Moslem. --Macaulay.
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3. A barbarous or cruel act.
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4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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