barbarious

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barbarious

  • /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeəɹɪəs/

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Possibly from barbary (“barbarian, non-Christian”), or combining barbaric and barbarous.

adjective more barbarious · most barbarious

  1. dated, literary, obsolete barbarous, barbaric. During that calamitous period, every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarious invaders and military tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.

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