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Definition of Barbarous

Barbarous Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. Related Definitions: Adapted, As, Barbarian, Barbarous, Being, Contrary, Country, Cruel, Ferocious, Foreign, In, Inhuman, Language, Merciless, Of, People, Peopled, Pure, Rude, State, Taste, The, To, Uncivilized, With

Barbarous Quotations For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. William Hazlitt Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. Ethan Allen And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. Robert Dale Owen

Barbarous Translations barbarous in German is grausam, barbarisch barbarous in Latin is inhumanus

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