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Example sentences for "barbarisms"

Lexicographically close words:
barbaric; barbarically; barbaris; barbarised; barbarism; barbarities; barbarity; barbarized; barbarorum; barbaros
  1. There are long streets of elegant cottages and villas, surrounded by nicely kept gardens and lawns, and containing churches in the construction of which the established barbarisms have been avoided.

  2. Vast as are the advances of our Science and Art, may it not possibly prove on examination that we retain other old barbarisms beside the use of the astrological sign of Jupiter, with which we endeavor to insure good luck to our prescriptions?

  3. A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging.

  4. But barbarisms may sometimes be used properly.

  5. In the foregoing rules barbarisms have been treated as at all times to be avoided.

  6. They come under the heading of an article called "Barbarisms of Civilisation.

  7. This produced, on the one hand, perpetual barbarisms and deviations from purity of idiom, while it gave rise in some to a fastidious hypercriticism, of which Valla had given an example.

  8. The Latin writers of the fifteenth century, few in number, are still more insignificant in value; they possess scarce an ordinary knowledge of grammar; to say that they are full of barbarisms and perfectly inelegant, is hardly necessary.

  9. And a is now sometimes equivalent to on; as, "He would have a learned University make Barbarisms a purpose.

  10. But this improvement in one direction merely serves to unearth new barbarisms in other directions, concealed in the oral tables by the flood of errors now remedied.

  11. In medicine, for example, the highest American usage countenances many forms which would seem barbarisms to an English medical man if he encountered them in the /Lancet/.

  12. Protestantism, like the heathen barbarisms which Catholicity subdued, lacks the element of order, because it rejects authority, and is necessarily incompetent to maintain real liberty or civilized society.

  13. Is there not some relaxation of the law necessary in vindication of the civilization of the age, against the legal barbarisms still remaining on the statute books, and adhered to by the common law, in regard to wives and mothers?

  14. Thus in 1866 Europe was much better prepared than ever before for the care of those who suffered from the barbarisms of war.

  15. We can scarce bear to read most of the books that were published, so rude and full of barbarisms is their style.

  16. He was far in advance of our times in his criticism of the barbarisms which the rudest ages of social experiment have transmitted to us.


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