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Definition of Barbarity
Barbarity

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

A barbarous or cruel act.

Barbarism; impurity of speech.

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Barbarity Quotations

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman

It is noteworthy that the first effect of contact with the whites was an increase of cruelty and barbarity, an intensifying of the dark shadows in the picture!
Charles Eastman

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Ellen Key

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
Pierre Schaeffer

Barbarity Translations

barbarity in German is Unmenschlichkeit
barbarity in Latin is atrocitas
barbarity in Swedish is grymhet


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