An uncivilized or unculturedperson, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
“No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.”
“It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.”
“Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.”
“It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax.”
“But there was also an impressive quantum of barbarisms, coloquialisms, double meanings, grammatical errors and anglicisms.”
“Those who seemed most impatient of barbarisms, solecisms, and paralogisms in a sermon, seemed to easily tolerate them in their life and conversation.”