Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Barbarism

Barbarism (bar"bȧ*riz'm) , noun

[Latin barbarismus, Greek barbarismo`s; compare French 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