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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