Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAR'BAR-OUS
BAR'BAR-OUS, a.
- Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners. Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous. – Shak.
- Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as, barbarous usage. – Clarendon.
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