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Definition of Barbarisms
1. barbarism [n] - See also: barbarism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarisms
Literary usage of Barbarisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Composition and Rhetoric for Schools by Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon (1905)
"barbarisms, or Words Not English.—Every combination of letters used by those who
... barbarisms are most commonly found in the speech of the uneducated, ..."
2. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1922)
"Avoid gross violations of good use, particularly (a) barbarisms, ... barbarisms are
distortions of words in good use, or coinages for which there is no need ..."
3. The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and by Henry Noble Day (1872)
"The following are barbarisms in respect to the use of 'WORDS NOT AUTHORIZED ...
Among barbarisms are to be enumerated unauthorized derivatives and compound ..."
4. The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application by Adams Sherman Hill (1891)
"TEDE offences against the usage of the English language are: (1) barbarisms,
words not English; (2) Solecisms, constructions not English ; (3) Improprieties ..."
5. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1824)
"... A Rout — barbarisms — Army Regulations — Laics respecting Marriage— Climate—
Nobility—Character of Prince Frederic—Stale of the Army—Danish Policy with ..."
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