Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Barbarities"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Barbarity \Bar*bar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Barbarities}. [From
{Barbarous}.]
The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
Treating Christians with a barbarity which would
have shocked the very Moslem. --Macaulay.
3. A barbarous or cruel act.
4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] --Swift.
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