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- adjective dated, now literary
barbarous ,barbaric .
Etymologies
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Examples
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With all the progress we have made why is it that in many ways we are on the brink of a barbarious phase?
Speech by Mewa Ramgobin during the discussion on the Centenary Anniversary of Satyagraha 2006
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Now what can I do to make you decent, sir, for them duds and that hair is barbarious?
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Governor takes them Seperate one each and trys to murder me: i have been No less then Six weeks at one time on bread and Water accompanied with a little penal Class and all the officers are incouraged to practise all kinds of barbarious maltreatment against me and other sick men -- theres is one officer here place here for the express purpose of tantelizing me and other his Name is Warder
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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France -- a truly barbarious measure; for; can anything be more cruel and unjust than to visit individuals with the vengeance due to the
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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When this war is over and if the Lord helps us to have peace, and a peace to suit ourselves, that is, the Allies, - I hope the Bulgarians nor their barbarious allies will be as nations, but will be under us.
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He called up all the resources of heathenism to aid, -- exorcism and witch-craft, the mysterious Obi worship with its barbarious rites, spells, and blood-sacrifice even, now and then, of human victims.
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Isles before the days of Julius Caesar, were happily concluded when a Scottish king inherited and sat on the throne of England, but the traditions of barbarious
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Under the eagles of Rome he was carried from his home on the Tiber to the farthest East on the one hand, and to the far West, among the then barbarious tribes of western Europe, on the other.
On the Mexican War 1906
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He called up all the resources of heathenism to aid, -- exorcism and witch-craft, the mysterious Obi worship with its barbarious rites, spells, and blood-sacrifice even, now and then, of human victims.
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Surely Russia would have been less barbarious, and Italy would have worn a sunnier look.
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