\Bar"ba*rism\, n. [L. barbarismus, Gr. ?; cf. F.
barbarisme.]
1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners;
   ignorance of arts, learning, and literature;
   barbarousness. --Prescott.
2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
         A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of
         marriage.                             --Milton.
3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form
   of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular
   language. See {Solecism}.
         The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign
         term in any of their writers with the odious name of
         barbarism.                            --G. Campbell.