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.
Bar*bar"i*ty (&?;), n.; pl. Barbarities (&?;). [From Barbarous.] 1. The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.