barbarousness

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Few constructions, though, can match “bleisure” for barbarousness.

From Economist • Jun. 13, 2017

Curious enough, but still more scandalous, that we should have the impudence to talk of our humanity, and our civilization, and of the barbarousness of our forefathers.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

"Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."

From English literary criticism by Various

His grotesque figure and dress, representing, so it seems to me at the moment, a speck of civilization among the barbarousness of my surroundings, is quite a relief to the senses.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

As MERCURY, by his eloquence, reclaimed men from their barbarousness and cruelty: so ORPHEUS, by his music, subdued fierce beasts and wild birds.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor