barbarity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BARBAR'ITY, noun [See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. 2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]
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