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单词 barbarity
释义 bar·bar·i·ty
\bärˈbarəd.ē, bȧˈb-, -ətē, -i also -ˈber-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Latin barbarus + English -ity
1. : barbarism
 < liberties … which were now threatened by the rising tide of barbarity — Walter Lippmann >
 < many American writers fled to exile … in disgust at the barbarity of their homeland — Horace Sutton >
 < a barbarity which deserves the ridicule which we bestow upon the rites of savages — Virginia Woolf >
2.
 a. : barbarous cruelty : inhumanity
  < to mitigate the barbarity of the criminal law — W.R.Inge >
 b. : an act or instance of barbarous cruelty : atrocity
  < there were few inhuman barbarities aside from the custom of scalping — American Guide Series: Maine >
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