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Definition of Barbarities
1. barbarity [n] - See also: barbarity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarities
Literary usage of Barbarities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1897)
"Expeditions like those from Massachu- barbarities setts against Quebec had a ...
The war they waged was simply a succession of isolated barbarities, ..."
2. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1874)
"Instead of those honorable rites which in all ages generous soldiers have been
glad to bestow upon enemies fallen in battle, we are disgusted by barbarities ..."
3. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Cruelties permitted by James—Jeffreys' barbarities after the Suppression of ...
THE barbarities which were practised after the suppression of Monmouth's ..."
4. The Canadian War of 1812 by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1906)
"... and that, if the barbarities should be continued, he would ' remove the
restrictions which have hitherto been imposed upon those who have offered their ..."
5. English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1857)
"THE barbarities OF WAR. I avow it. On every side of me I see causes at work which
go to spread a most delusive coloring over war, and to remove its shocking ..."
6. History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776: From the Death by Charles Henry Jones (1882)
"... Demand for the Perpetrators of the barbarities after the Cedars—Carleton
returns an Offensive Answer—Sectional Animosities between the Troops— Ordnance ..."
7. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"Order to pillage issued.—General Pope's Order.—Proceedings.—Letter of General
Lee relative to barbarities. ... barbarities of the United States Government. ..."
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