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11 words match “BARBARITY”

BARBARITY n. 4 definitions
Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.
BARBAROUSNESS n.
The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
BUTCHERY n.
Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott.
CANNIBALISM n.
The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. Berke.
CRUELTY n.
f being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.
FELLNESS n.
The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.
IMMANITY n.
The state or quality of being immane; barbarity. [R.] Shak.
INDECENCE n.
See Indecency. [Obs.] "An indecence of barbarity." Bp. Burnet.
INHUMANITY n.
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
LAPSE v.
or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. Swift. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character. Addison.
SAVAGERY n.
An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak.