Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAR-BAR'I-TY
BAR-BAR'I-TY, n. [See Barbarian.]
- The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. – Clarendon.
- Barbarism; impurity of speech. – Dryden. Swift. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]
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