Crossword-Solution: BARBARISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Barbarism | n. | An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. |
| Barbarism | n. | A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. |
| Barbarism | n. | An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “BARBARISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Complected," for one | 1 answer |
| IGNORANCE and rudeness | 1 answer |
| SAVAGERY and civilisation/civilization, station between | 1 answer |
| act of cruelty | 1 answer |
| condition of being backward or ignorant | 1 answer |
| bad form | 35 answers |
| inelegance | 46 answers |
| Impropriety | 54 answers |
| Cruelty | 71 answers |
| discourtesy | 73 answers |
| inhumanity | 79 answers |
| ignorance | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BARBARISM (5)
Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
The whole science and art of Sight Recognition would at once perish; Feeling, so far as it is an art, would not long survive; intercourse would become perilous or impossible; there would be an end to all confidence, all forethought; no one would be safe in making the most simple social arrangements; in a word, civilization might relapse into barbarism.
Spite of the eloquence of the earnest Abolitionists,—poured out against slavery during thirty years,—even they must confess, that, in all the probabilities of the case, that system of barbarism would have continued its horrors far beyond the limits of the nineteenth century but for the Rebellion, and perhaps only have disappeared at last in a fiery conflict, even more fierce and bloody than that which has now been suppressed.
Here, at least, I was sure that we should find what we sought—and, if not, then all Europe had reverted to barbarism.
The whole science and art of Sight Recognition would at once perish; Feeling, so far as it is an art, would not long survive; intercourse would become perilous or impossible; there would be an end to all confidence, all forethought; no one would be safe in making the most simple social arrangements; in a word, civilization would relapse into barbarism.
Quotes with BARBARISM (3)
Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts only (not, like mathematics, on their application to intuition), in which reason therefore is meant to be its own pupil, has hitherto not had the good fortune to enter upon the secure path of a science, although it is older than all other sciences, and would survive even if all the rest were swallowed up in the abyss of an all…
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no …
For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).