Definition for BAR-BAR'I-TY

BAR-BAR'I-TY, n. [See Barbarian.]

  1. The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. – Clarendon.
  2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. – Dryden. Swift. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]

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